Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
During construction of high-rise residential towers, a worker was fatally injured when a thirteen-ton counterweight from an excavator fell on them. Orin Contracting Services Inc. failed to ensure the safety measures and procedures for removing a counterweight from an excavator.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine July 2016)
A postal carrier was hospitalized on July 11, 2016, after two pit bull terriers attacked him while he was on his mail route in Laval, Quebec.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (July 2016)
The Ottawa City Council has voted unanimously to petition the Ontario Labour Minister and Attorney General to push for criminal investigations and convictions regarding occupational health fatalities and serious workplace injuries, in accordance with 2004 amendments to the Canadian Criminal Code of Canada, known as the Westray Law.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
An employee of Cargill Limited, an international company that provides food, agriculture and risk management products and services, dropped a heavy machine from a forklift onto a worker, injuring the worker.