Posts Tagged As: Safety Engineering

Blog Post #1490 – Waste Management Company Fined $50,000 After Worker Injury

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Canadian Waste Management Inc. of Mississauga, Ontario, was injured after reaching into the hopper of a waste collection truck while its machinery was engaged. The company failed, as an employer, to ensure the truck was equipped with, and guarded by, a guard or other device to prevent access to its moving parts.

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Blog Post #1488 – Workplace Fatality Results in $115,000 Fine for Ottawa Company

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Bacic Forming Concrete Ltd., sustained fatal injuries during the demolition of foundation walls at a construction project for a new single-storey residential dwelling. The employer failed to take precautions to prevent injury to a person on or near a project that may result from the demolition of a building or structure, as prescribed.

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Blog Post #1484 – Workplace Fatality Results in $135,000 Fine for Thunder Bay Contracting Company

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

While replacing the left hydraulic lift cylinder of the arm of a front-end loader, a worker, employed by Finn Way General Contractor Inc., of Thunder Bay, Ontario, was fatally injured when the loader arm dropped after the hydraulic cap placed on the hydraulic lines was removed, releasing the pressurized fluid in the right hydraulic lift cylinder that was holding up the weight of the arm. Finn Way General Contractor Inc., failed as an employer, to ensure measures and procedures prescribed by the Industrial Establishments’, Ontario Regulation 851/90 were carried out in the workplace.

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