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Blog Post #299 – Atlas Dewatering and Supervisor Fined $81,000 Total after Worker Injured

Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Atlas Dewatering Corporation, a Concord company dealing in groundwater control, was fined $75,000 on February 10, 2011, for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was critically injured. Patrick Maher, a supervisor with the company, was fined $6,000 in relation to the same incident.

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Blog Post #287 – Confined Space and its Hazards – Death by Design

Article from the OH&S Canada Magazine

By: Jason Contant

On the morning of September 5, 2008, a plumber was called to A-1 Mushroom Substratum Ltd. in Langley, British Columbia for the second time in as many days. There, he found an intake pipe at the bottom of a pump shed completely blocked and informed a supervisor at the mushroom composting facility that a company with expertise in sewer pump-out would be needed.

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