Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Brampton Brick Ltd., of Brampton, Ontario; a manufacturer of clay bricks and concrete blocks, was fatally injured as a result of the company’s failure to ensure adequate machine guarding that prevents access to a pinch point in accordance with section 25 of Ontario Regulation 851. This is an offence pursuant to section 66(1) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Canadian General, of Cambridge, Ontario, a company that produces polymeric coated textile fabrics and vinyl films for automotive and industrial applications, was injured after being caught in the pinch point of a machine. The company failed to ensure the worker was protected from the pinch point, as required by section 25 of Ontario Regulation 851/90, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Cerelia Bakery of Vancouver, British Columbia, was critically injured after accessing an unguarded pinch point on a conveyor. Cerelia Bakery failed, as an employer, to ensure that the conveyor was guarded to prevent access to the pinch point, as required by section 25 of Ontario Regulation 851/90, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
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A worker, employed by Saputo Dairy Products Canada GP of Woodbridge, Ontario, a company that manufactures dairy products, was critically injured while attempting to clean waste cheese particles out of a groove in a conveyor drive roller. By not ensuring the conveyor was equipped with a guard, Saputo failed to ensure the measures and procedures prescribed by section 25 of the Regulation for Industrial Establishments were carried out in the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.