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Blog Post #1670 – Workplace Injury Leads to $50,000 Fine for Hearst-based Company

Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by C. Villeneuve Construction Co. Ltd., of Hearst, Ontario; a construction contractor. was critically injured as a result of the company’s failure to ensure adequate machine guarding contrary to section 196(3.1) of Regulation 854, Mines and Mining Plants. This is an offence pursuant to section 66(1) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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