Fines, Injuries, and Fatalities in the Workplace

Headlines from Occupational Health and Safety:

• Newfoundland meat plant owner charged after worker loses fingers
   – The company failed to ensure proper training & procedures were in place.

• Supervisor fined, charges against four others dropped in Ontario farm fatalities
  – In a supervisory role, you are equally at risk for fines – not just the company.

• Nothing to gain in Saskatchewan gas line explosion inquest: chief coroner
  – it’s important to note an inquest is only a tool to help provide all the facts, not to place legal blame.

• PEI worker injured in crane accident
  –  An Occupational Health and Safety spokesman confirmed the incident is under investigation but could not provide further details.

• Emergency procedures not taken in Saskatchewan CO poisoning
  – The report into the leak at St. Mary’s Villa in Humboldt cites six contraventions of Occupational Health and Safety rules.

• Shed explosion claims life of BC volunteer firefighter
  – the workplace safety board is investigating the incident and occupational health and safety officers are on the scene, they have had “only limited access” to the site.