Posts Tagged As: Occupational Injury

Blog Post #1095 – Worker Pulled into Traffic and Injured, Employer Fined $50,000

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

 An employee working for Liqui-Force Services (Ontario) Inc. received critical injuries after being pulled into moving traffic by a cable. Liqui-Force Services (Ontario) Inc., operates a no-dig, pipeline rehabilitation service and offers complete pipeline system inspection, assessment, rehabilitation and maintenance. The accident took place on February 28, 2017.

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Blog #1092 – Hypoxia Involved in Crash

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine

Hypoxia, or in-flight oxygen deprivation, was a likely factor in a plane crash that killed a pilot and survey technician in Alberta last year, according to a recent investigation report from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB).

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