Posts Categorized As: Fall Protection

Blog Post #1489 – Chatham Demolition and Excavating Company Fined $70,000 After Workplace Fatality

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by James Curran Expert Removal & Excavating Limited., died after falling from the upper level of a building that was being demolished. James Curran Expert Removal & Excavating Limited failed to ensure that the worker was adequately protected by a method of fall protection when exposed to a fall of more than three metres.

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Blog Post #1483 – Workplace Fatality Results in $110,000 Fine for Brantford Roofing Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

On July 30, 2021, five workers, employed by Jackson Roofing & Son Contracting Inc. of Brantford, Ontario, were on the rooftop of a portable classroom at an elementary school. None of the workers were wearing fall protection, nor were there guardrails or barriers around the roof perimeter of the portable.

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