Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Job fatalities in Nova Scotia in 2018, according to statistics that WCB Nova Scotia and the Department of Labour and Advanced Education released on April 17, 2019.
Blog Post #1064 – Company Fined $60,000 in Eglinton Crosstown Wall Collapse
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Workers for Delsan – A.I.M. Environmental Services Inc., on April 18, 2016, were directing pedestrian traffic while a wall on the project site was being demolished. While a worker was escorting pedestrians underneath an overhead protection, the wall under demolition collapsed, injuring one worker and a number of pedestrians.
Blog Post #1062 – Dying to work: We should protect our young
Original Report by: Buzz Hargrove
David Ellis, an 18-year-old student from Burlington, Ont., became entangled in a commercial dough mixer in a bakery. He died on Feb. 17, 1999. It was his second day on a job that was to last only three weeks.
Blog Post #1061 – Baked Goods Company Fined $70,000 After Worker Injured by Dough Machine
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
On July 30, 2016, at FGF Brands Inc., 475 North Rivermede Road, Concord, Ontario, a commercial food manufacturing company that produces baked goods, a temporary worker was trapped and injured by a dough machine that had been started up while cleaning was being done.