Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (Oct. 2016)
A construction firm was fined $50,000 on August 11, 2016, in connection with a worker injury two years earlier.
Blog Post #1471 – Kitchener Company and CEO Fined $100,000 in Total for Machine Guarding Violations
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
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.
Blog Post #1470 – Workplace Injury Results in $60,000 Fine for Sault Ste. Marie Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by R. F. Contracting Inc. of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario was seriously injured while cleaning an industrial furnace. The worker, whose fall protection harness and tether were not anchored, fell approximately 28 feet inside the furnace.
Blog Post #1466 – Food Manufacturer Fined $80,000 After Worker Injured in Peterborough
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
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.