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THS Industries Ltd., as an employer, and Xiaoye He, as a Director, failed to take all reasonable care to ensure equipment, materials and protective devices, as prescribed by Section 25 of Ontario Regulation 851/90, were provided for nail-maker machines, leaving workers at risk of accessing moving parts inside the machines.
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A worker suffered a critical injury from a conveyor belt at the Hunter Street plant. Pepsico Canada ULC failed, as an employer, to ensure the conveyor belt was guarded to prevent access to an in-running nip hazard, as required by the Regulation for Industrial Establishments.
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A worker, employed by Laminacorr Industries Inc., of Cornwall, Ontario, was critically injured while performing duties at the company’s Marleau Avenue facility.
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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.