Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (February 2017)
A foreman is dead after falling approximately 12.5 metres from the fourth storey of a building at a construction site in Fredericton.
Blog Post #1511 – Injury Prompts Penalty
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (January 2017)
A construction equipment seller in London, Ontario, was fined $115,000 on January 05, 2017, over a worker injury. A drive assembly weighing about 2,200 kilograms fell from its support stands at the Toromont Industries Ltd. maintenance shop for heavy equipment on August 21, 2015, trapping a Toromont worker’s hand between the fallen axle and the concrete floor.
Blog Post #1510 – Court Overturns Decision in British Columbia
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (January 2017)
Original report by: Jeff Cottrill (Editor)
The British Columbia Court of Appeal recently three out a decision by the provincial Supreme Court from a 2016 decision that rejected a WorkSafeBC order against an asbestos-removal contractor.
Blog Post #1508 – Concord Transport Company Fined $140,000 After Workplace Fatality
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Vitran Express Canada Inc., operating as National Fast Freight, of Concord, Ontario, a transport and logistics services company, was fatally injured when they were caught between a reversing truck and a trailer. Vitran Express Canada Inc. failed to ensure that a truck tractor provided had a functional back up alarm or back up lights, contrary to the Occupational Health and Safety Act.