Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
St. Marys Cement Inc. of Toronto has been fined $75,000 and a supervisor was fined $3,000 for violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.
Blog Post #464 – Concerns Over The Right to Refuse
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (September 2010)
FEDERAL — The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) is panning legislative amendments that it has said will “seriously undermine the right of federal workers to refuse dangerous work.”
Blog Post #29 – Man Dies in Quarry Accident
Excerpt from ctvottawa.ca
Ontario’s Ministry of Labour is investigating a workplace accident that killed a 26-year-old man as he worked at a privately-owned quarry near Manotick. The man was working an excavator Thursday morning at 6107 First Line Rd., a jobsite owned by Green Valley Environmental, a waste water company specializing in septic system services. As he scooped up part of a 30-50-foot mound of rock and gravel with his machinery, it’s believed part of the pile collapsed, tumbling on top of him. The incident crushed the cab, with him inside. He was pronounced dead at the scene.