Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
An employer in Kingsville, Ontario has been ordered to pay $23,500 migrant worker after a human rights tribunal found that the worker had been fired for making a complaint about racial taunts in the workplace.
Blog Post #756 – Sun-Brite Foods Inc. Fined $70,000 after Worker Injured in Canning Facility
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Sun-Brite Foods Inc., a company that processes and cans field crops, has pleaded guilty and has been fined $70,000 after a seasonal farm worker was critically injured.
Blog Post #754 – Jebco Industries of Innisfil Fined $30,000
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Jebco Industries Inc., a company that operates a coatings, linings and moulding facility in Innisfil, has pleaded guilty and has been fined $30,000 after a worker was observed working on top of a flatbed trailer without using a safety harness or other fall protection equipment as required by law. No one was injured.
Blog Post #751 – General Motors of Canada Fined $160,000 after Worker Injured at Oshawa Plant
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
General Motors of Canada pleaded guilty and was fined $160,000 after a worker was hospitalized with injuries sustained from a 2,000-pound lift table falling and crushing the worker.