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Blog Post #1549 – Workplace Injury Results in $50,000 Fine for Brantford Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker was seriously injured while repairing the brakes on a motor home. Bert’s Truck and Trailer Repair Inc. failed, as an employer, to protect a worker by ensuring the safety measures and procedures required for preventing an elevated vehicle from falling on a worker were carried out, as outlined in section 74 of the Regulation for Industrial Establishments.

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Blog Post #1544 – Mining Company Charged

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (November 2016)

Toronto-based mining company Glenmore Canada Corporation is facing multiple charges over the death of 54-year-old Richard Pigeau, who was killed when a piece of machinery struck him on the Nickel Rim South Mine in Sudbury on October 20, 2015.

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

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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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