Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Winter 2023)
Ontario has apologized to mine workers in the province who were exposed to McIntyre Powder.
Blog Post #1628 – Workplace Injury Results in $79,500 Fine for Woodbridge Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Saputo Dairy Products Canada GP of Woodbridge, Ontario, a company that manufactures dairy products, was critically injured while attempting to clean waste cheese particles out of a groove in a conveyor drive roller. By not ensuring the conveyor was equipped with a guard, Saputo failed to ensure the measures and procedures prescribed by section 25 of the Regulation for Industrial Establishments were carried out in the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Blog Post #1625 – Workplace Injury Results in $200,000 Fine for Owen Sound Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Pickard Construction of Owen Sound, Ontario, was critically injured while their crew was clearing a blockage from a pipe near a live overhead hydro line. By not ensuring precautions were in place to prevent hazards to workers from energized electrical equipment, installations and conductors, Pickard Construction failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures as prescribed by section 183 of Ontario Regulation 213/91 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Blog Post #1624 – Workplace Injury Results in $80,000 Fine for Quebec Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘newsroom’
A worker, employed by Andritz Hydro Canada, of Pointe-Claire, Quebec, a company that supplies hydro turbines and generators in Canada, was critically injured after being struck by a falling sole plate. By not ensuring the sole plate was adequately braced, Andritz Hydro Canada failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.