Posts Tagged As: worker protection

Blog Post #1289 – Injury in Meat Packing Plant Results in $50,000 Fine for Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed at the Erie Meat Products Ltd. Plant in Mississauga, Ontario, was cleaning excess packaging from a machine was injured after removing interlocking guards from the front of the machine. The company failed to ensure that the hot dog loader/packer machine was locked-out when the worker was removing excess plastic.

Blog Post#1286 – Union Challenges New Ratios

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (October 2014)

The union representing more than 7000 Air Canada flight attendants is challenging a decision from the federal government to exempt the airline from maintaining the current ratio of one flight attendant for every 40 passenger seats.

Blog Post #1277 – Worker Struck by Exploding Cap, $70,000 Fine for City of London

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by the Corporation of the City of London, Ontario, was injured when a cap on a drain pipe shot off and struck the worker, resulting in critical injuries. The employer failed to take the reasonable precaution of ensuring that the internal pressure of the drain pipeline was released before the mechanical joint end cap was removed and/or loosened.

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