Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine
By Jean Lian
An inquest into the death of a 72-year-old builder on a construction site in Saint John has yielded several recommendations aimed at enhancing safety.
Blog Post #315 – Metro Ontario Inc. Fined $350,000 after Young Worker Killed
Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Metro Ontario Inc., a retail grocer, was fined $350,000 yesterday for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that caused a young worker’s death.
Blog Post #311 – Paul S. Pollock Fined $60,000 after Worker Injured
Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Paul S. Pollock Enterprises Ltd., carrying on business as Canadian Tire Store #420, was fined $60,000 on March 7, 2011, for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that caused a worker to be injured.
Blog Post #299 – Landmark fines in 2009 Christmas Eve fatalities for Metron
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine
By: Greg Burchell
The highest criminal fine for corporate negligence causing death in Canadian history was handed down on Friday, but Ontario’s Federation of Labour says it is not enough.
Metron Construction Ltd., the company responsible for the deaths of four workers and the critical injury of another after a swing stage collapsed in Toronto in 2009, was fined $200,000 plus an additional $30,000 victim fine surcharge – double the previous largest fine and the first corporate guilty plea in Ontario since Criminal Code revisions were made in 2004. All 30 Occupational Health and Safety Act charges against Metron were dropped as part of the guilty plea.