Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (January 2017)
A construction equipment seller in London, Ontario, was fined $115,000 on January 05, 2017, over a worker injury. A drive assembly weighing about 2,200 kilograms fell from its support stands at the Toromont Industries Ltd. maintenance shop for heavy equipment on August 21, 2015, trapping a Toromont worker’s hand between the fallen axle and the concrete floor.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Bernt Gilbertson Enterprise Limited of Richards Landing, Ontario, was critically injured when a motor fell during maintenance work being performed on a portable cone crusher. Gilbertson Enterprises failed as an employer to take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker. The accident took place on May 15, 2021.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by National Steel Car Limited was fatally injured after being struck by a lift-assist device that fell from an overhead crane. National Steel Car Limited failed, as an employer, to ensure that the hoisting controls for the overhead crane were located so they could be operated at a safe distance from a load being lifted. The plant was in Hamilton, Ontario.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by FIO Automotive Canada Corporation (FIO), suffered a critical injury at the workplace when a 1,500-pund feed bar was knocked out of its support cradle and struck the worker who was operating the crane. FIO contravened a section of the ‘Industrial Regulations’ by failing to ensure that a feed bar that may tip or fall and endanger any worker was secured against tipping or falling.