Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A temporary foreign worker employed by Liiman Employment Inc. was assigned to work at the powder-coating facility owned by West End Mfg. Inc.
Blog Post #1568 – Workplace Injury Results in $80,000 Fine for Toronto-based Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Stackpole International Powder Metal, Ltd. (the Company) failed to ensure that machinery being operated was equipped with a guard or other device to prevent access to moving parts, as prescribed by section 24 of Ontario Reg. 851, Industrial Establishments. This is contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Blog Post #1507 – City of Greater Sudbury Fined $150,000 After Workplace Fatality
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by the Corporation of the City of Greater Sudbury, was fatally injured when they became entangled in the machinery of a sand spreader while the auger inside was powered on. The Corporation of the City of Greater Sudbury failed, as an employer, to ensure that machinery with an exposed moving part was equipped with, and guarded by, a guard or device to prevent access to the moving part, as prescribed by Ontario Regulation 851, and contrary to the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Blog Post #1419 – Workplace Injury Results in $75,000 Fine for an Alberta-based Belleville Employer
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Three workers were operating a mixer that makes sausages. As they were emptying the contents into two-wheeled bins at the outfeed to clean the mixer, one worker reached into the discharge hole, seriously injuring themselves. The accident occurred at the JBS Ontario Foods Inc. plant on Jamieson Bone Rd. Belleville, Ontario. JBS Ontario Foods Inc. is based in Calgary, Alberta.