Ontario OHS Scorecard?Reported Fines in September 2019

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

 

$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