Posts Tagged As: OHSA

Blog Post #1714 – Workplace Fatality Results in $375,000 Fine for Toronto Propane Company

Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Superior Propane, was fatally injured between a 1000-gallon steel propane tank and the brick wall of a building. The company failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by section 76 of Ontario Regulation 851/90 were carried out at a workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1711 – Nepean Company Fined $60,000 After Worker Injured

Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Advanced Building Innovation Company Inc. of Nepean, Ontario, a maker of prefabricated homes for construction sites, was injured by an automatic nailing machine while performing repairs. The company failed, as an employer, to ensure the machine was properly locked out, contrary to section 76 of Ontario Regulation 851/90 and section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1707 – Workplace Injury Results in $115,000 Fine for Leamington-based Company

Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Highline Produce Limited of Leamington, Ontario, a mushroom growing company, was critically injured operating equipment for which no measures, procedures, guards or other devices where in place to prevent access to a hazard. Highline Produce Limited failed to take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker in the workplace, a violation of section 25(2)(h) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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