The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) is providing smaller businesses with up to 99 full-time employees more time to take advantage of added incentives to make their workplaces safer, while boosting their bottom line. The benefits for smaller businesses through the WSIB’s Health and safety Excellence program, first announced in June 2022, are now available through 2023, meaning businesses can: earn double the rebates in both 2022 and 2023 receive $1,000 towards their...
Ontario steel nail manufacturer fined $100K, including $15K for CEO, for machine-guarding violations
By OHS Canada A steel nail manufacturing company in Kitchener, Ont., has been fined a total of $100,000 for machine-guarding violations. No injuries were reported, but it was the third conviction in six years for THS Industries Ltd. The fine included $85,000 against the company and $15,000 to Xiaoye He, the company’s chief executive officer (CEO). Anonymous complaint On Dec. 22, 2021, occupational health and safety inspectors from the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and...
Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development Convicted: Eric Lemire Enterprises Inc./Les Enterprises Eric Lemire Inc., a construction company specializing in erecting structural and miscellaneous steel, 4815 McNeely Rd., Ottawa. Location of Workplace: Industrial and commercial building project at 11920 Sunset Dr., St. Thomas. Description of Offence: A worker was injured by a steel truss that tipped over. Eric Lemire Enterprises Inc./Les Enterprises Eric Lemire Inc...
Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development Convicted: Blocknote Canada Inc., operating as Redtail Vineyards (Redtail Vineyards), 422 Partridge Hollow Road, Consecon, Ontario, a wine-making operation; Lee Baker, a supervisor. Location of Workplace: 19538 Loyalist Parkway, Consecon, Ontario Description of Offence: A worker was seriously injured after a large vat, suspended on a forklift truck, tipped off the forks. The worker had been helping to install the vat...
Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development Convicted: JBS Foods Ontario Inc.,5883 11 Street SE, Calgary, Alberta. Location of Workplace: 240 Jamieson Bone Rd. Belleville, Ontario. Description of Offence: Three workers were operating a mixer that makes sausages. As they were emptying the contents into two-wheeled bins at the outfeed to clean the mixer, one worker reached into the discharge hole, seriously injuring themselves. JBS Foods Ontario Inc. failed to ensure...
Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development Convicted: Yuqin Liu, Supervisor, L.Z. Refrigeration Inc., 168 Jenny Wrenway, North York, Ontario. Location of Workplace: 1870 Birchmount Road, Scarborough, Ontario. Description of Offence: A worker employed by L.Z. Refrigeration Inc. was fatally injured at the workplace while operating an Elevating Work Platform (EWP). Yuqin Liu failed as a supervisor to ensure that a worker worked in a manner and with the...
Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development Convicted: Orin Contracting Services Inc., 100 MacIntosh Blvd., Concord, Ontario Location of Workplace: 5799 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario Description of Offence: During construction of high-rise residential towers, a worker was fatally injured when a thirteen-ton counterweight from an excavator fell on them. Orin Contracting Services Inc. failed to ensure the safety measures and procedures for removing a counterweight...
Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development Convicted: Cargill Limited – Cargill Limitee, an international company that provides food, agriculture and risk management products and services based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Location of Workplace: The company’s poultry processing facility at 10 Cuddy Blvd. in London, Ontario Description of Offence: A heavy machine fell from a forklift onto a worker, injuring the worker. Date of Offence: October 26, 2020 Date...
Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development Convicted: Otter Energy Inc., 206 Main Street, Suite 2H, Picton, Ontario. Location of Workplace: 1623 St Andre, Embrun, Ontario. Description of Offence: A worker employed by Otter Energy Inc. was fatally injured at the workplace while performing a task associated with the installation of solar panels at the workplace. Otter Energy Inc. failed as an employer to ensure that every reasonable precaution was taken to...
Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development Convicted: Goldentrust Development Inc., 156 Willowdale Avenue, Toronto, Ontario. Location of Workplace: 15 Flaremore Crescent, Toronto, Ontario. Description of Offence: Goldentrust Development Inc. was the constructor for the workplace. A self-employed owner of a sub-contractor was fatally injured at the workplace when they fell approximately six meters to the bottom of an unguarded elevator shaft. Goldentrust...