Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (December 2016)
A vegetable-processing company in the community of Delhi, Ontario was fined $54,000 on October 20, 2016over a worker’s permanent injury.
Blog Post #1439 – Workplace Injury Results in $75,000 Fine for Belleville Employer
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
On December 30, 2020, three workers were operating a sausage mixer at JBS Foods’ Belleville plant. The workers were operating a mixer that makes sausages. As they were emptying the contents into two-wheeled bins at the outfeed to clean the mixer, one worker reached into the discharge hole, seriously injuring themselves. JBS Foods Ontario Inc. failed to ensure the machine had a guard or other device to prevent access to the pinch points as prescribed.
Blog Post #1419 – Workplace Injury Results in $75,000 Fine for an Alberta-based Belleville Employer
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Three workers were operating a mixer that makes sausages. As they were emptying the contents into two-wheeled bins at the outfeed to clean the mixer, one worker reached into the discharge hole, seriously injuring themselves. The accident occurred at the JBS Ontario Foods Inc. plant on Jamieson Bone Rd. Belleville, Ontario. JBS Ontario Foods Inc. is based in Calgary, Alberta.
Blog Post #1247 – Second Offence results in $90,000 Fine for Woodbridge Window Manufacturer
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker employed by Aluminum Window Designs Ltd. of Woodbridge, Ontario, received a critical injury while trying to remove a piece of aluminum from a punch press.