Report from the OH&S Canada magazine Spring (2024)
An Ontario company and its director have been fined a total of $680,000 after an explosion killed six workers and seriously injured another in January 2022.
Blog Post #1622 – Workplace Injury Results in $68,000 Fine for Woodbridge Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Innovative Metal Works Inc. of Woodbridge, Ontario, a company that manufactures and installs structural steel at construction projects, sustained critical injuries after a nylon hoisting strap holding a lateral assembly beam to a crane broke, causing the beam to swing and fall. By not ensuring to take steps to protect the nylon hoisting strap from being cut, Innovative Metal Works Inc. failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by section 172(3) of the Regulation for Construction Projects were carried out at the workplace, contrary section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Blog Post #1621 – Syncrude Fined $390,000 After Excavator Operator Drowns on the Job
Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Spring 2024)
Syncrude Canada has been fined $390,000 after one of its workers was killed near Fort McKay, Alta, in 2021.
Blog Post #1617 – PEI’s WCB Reports High Levels of Employer Satisfaction
Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Spring 2024)
Employers in Prince Edward Island continue to report high levels of overall satisfaction with the province’s Workers’ Compensation Board, according to new survey data.