Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Paper Fibres Inc., a Mississauga-based company, was fined $100,000 on July 13, 2010, for violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was seriously injured.
On March 18, 2009, a worker and a supervisor employed by Paper Fibres Inc. were working on a waste paper baling machine at the production plant at 6405 Northwest Drive in Mississauga. A piece of cardboard had become stuck in the hopper of the baling machine. The worker tried to remove it with a pole, but the pole fell into the hopper. The worker then went inside the hopper to remove the jam while the supervisor manned the controls. The machine cycled with the worker inside, causing serious injuries to the worker’s legs.
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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine
A crane rigger suffered fatal crushing injuries on May 8 after building materials fell on him at a construction site in downtown Calgary.
Lance James Orr, 27, was working at the Penn West Plaza site when, at about 2:15 pm, pieces of concrete forms fell approximately three metres from a tower crane, says Chris Chodan, a spokesperson for Alberta Employment and Immigration (AEI).
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Excerpt from the Ontario Government’s ‘Newsroom’
Welded Tube of Canada, a Concord-based company, was fined $140,000 on July 16, 2010, for violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.
On July 31, 2008, a worker employed by Welded Tube at 50 Bowes Road in Concord prepared a bundle of steel tubes weighing approximately 2½ tons and sent them down a conveyor to be processed for shipping. The worker and a co-worker then began to make a mechanical adjustment in the path of the conveyor. The bundle of tubes needed to be rearranged and was sent back on the same conveyor, where it struck the worker and caused leg injuries.
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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
An Alberta court has more than tripled the fine issued against an employer last year in connection with a deadly work-related accident, concluding the lower court imposed an “unfit” sentence.
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