Preventing injury and deaths of the scaffolding workers
Last August, I told you about the horrific scaffolding accident where five workers fell 13 storeys from an apartment building on Christmas Eve 2009. Four died and one suffered serious leg and spinal...
View ArticleUpdate: pleas regarding scaffolding incident
On Christmas Eve, 2009, four workers fell to their death at a Toronto construction site from a scaffold that did not use proper fall arrest systems. A fifth worker was seriously injured. The result:...
View ArticleMetron construction director fined $90,000 under OHSA
On July 13, 2012, Joel Swartz, the director of Metron Construction Corporation, was fined $90,000 after pleading guilty to violations of the OHSA after four workers were killed and another worker was...
View ArticleFine increased in Metron OHS criminal negligence causing death case
As you may recall, charges under both the Occupational Health and Safety Act and the Criminal Code of Canada were laid against the company Metron for the death of four workers at a Toronto construction...
View ArticleThree popular articles this week on HRinfodesk
Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with wilful misconduct; family status and eldercare; and, criminal negligence causing death under OHSA. Continue reading Three popular articles this...
View ArticleConstruction manager is given prison sentence of three and one half years
Construction project manager receives prison time for Toronto scaffold deaths under health and safety criminal negligence in the Criminal Code.. Continue reading Construction manager is given prison...
View ArticleHealth and safety related criminal charges laid in scaffold deaths
The Toronto Star recently reported that Vadim Kazenelson, 35, of Gormley, Joel Swartz, 51, of Toronto, Benny Saigh, 52 of Toronto, and Metron Construction Corporation have each been charged with...
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