Company fined after dad crushed to death by concrete

Workplace fatality results in $225,000 fine for Ontario manufacturer - OHS Canada Magazine

Brampton Brick Limited has been fined $225,000 after a worker was fatally injured on the job. The clay brick and concrete block manufacturer pleaded guilty to failing to ensure adequate machine guarding that prevents access to a pinch point in accordance with section 25 of Ontario Regulation 851. This is an offence pursuant to section 66(1) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. On June 8, 2023, a worker in the Brampton, Ont., facility was h…

Company fined after dad crushed to death by concrete

He died on site

Questions linger over second Edgartown worker death  - The Martha's Vineyard Times

Last week, an emigrant from Ecuador living in Fall River was working high up on a residential home in Edgartown when he fell 20 to 30 feet to his death. It is the second time this year that a man from Ecuador has died after falling at a construction site in the down-Island town, and the third in recent months of a worker from Fall River. Whether the worker was properly trained in safety procedures and what exactly went wrong will be left up to f…

Contractor fined after worker crushed to death on site

A construction company has been fined after a kitchen fitter was crushed to death by concrete blocks at a site in Gloucestershire. Martin Dunford, 33, was killed on 23 January 2020 while working on a Piper Homes Construction Ltd housing development at Ebrington Rise, near… The post Contractor fined after worker crushed to death on site appeared first on Construction News.

Developer fined after young worker crushed to death by concrete blocks - Construction Management

Piper Homes has been fined £300,000 after a 33-year-old kitchen fitter was crushed to death by a pack of concrete blocks at a site in the Cotswolds. Martin Dunford, from Pocklington in Yorkshire, had been working near Chipping Campden where Piper Homes was the principal contractor on the construction of a residential development. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that on 23 January 2020, Dunford had walked around a lorry loader to ta…

Rhode Island construction company fined just under $20,000 by OSHA after death of Fall River man while on the job

A construction company received 3 citations after the death of a Fall River man while on the job. 32-year-old Jose Luis Collaguazo Crespo tragically passed away on February 11th at his work, the Meshacket Commons project in Edgartown, Marthas Vineyard. Crespo had fallen from a ladder about two