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 #1470 – Workplace Injury Results in $60,000 Fine for Sault Ste. Marie Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by R. F. Contracting Inc. of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario was seriously injured while cleaning an industrial furnace. The worker, whose fall protection harness and tether were not anchored, fell approximately 28 feet inside the furnace.
Blog Post #1447 – Workplace Injury Results in $90,000 Fine for Grocery Store Chain
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
On June 1, 2021, two workers were dismantling a walk-in cooler. One of the workers, who was not wearing fall protection, used a scissor lift elevated work platform to step on the top of the freezer to unscrew metal plates attached to the roofing panels.
Blog Post #1434 – Mine Contracting and Engineering Company Fined $110,000 after Workplace Injury near Matachewan
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Cementation Canada Inc., of Toronto Ontario, fell 4.09 metres from a raised platform and was injured. Cementation Canada Inc. failed, as an employer, to ensure that a fall arrest system was used at the workplace to protect workers exposed to a fall greater than three metres. Cementation Canada Inc. is an underground mine contracting and engineering company with offices in North Bay and Sudbury.