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| Fine(1) | Offender | Trigger Incident | Offence(s) (as ’employer’ unless otherwise indicated) |
| $400K(2) | Lafarge Canada Inc. | Worker giving demolition contractors tour of closed plant falls nearly 30 feet to his death when corroded + structurally unsound walkway collapses beneath him | Failure to prevent access or brace and shore part of damaged structure likely to collapse
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| $265K | Toronto Transit Commission | Maintenance worker fatally crushed between pick-up truck and work car being moved | Failure to provide a trained and qualified monitor to observe movement of the work car, while in direct communication with work car operator to ensure work car didn’t contact workers, vehicles or equipment |
| $70K | Belden Canada Inc. | Worker killed after getting entangled in wire fed into wire processing machine without a fixed guard | Failure to ensure guarding of machine so that material being processed doesn’t endanger a worker’s safety |
| Notes: (1) Not counting 25% victim surcharge (2) Penalty size factors in defendant’s history of OHS convictions |
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