We publish this information to inform and educate both employers and workers of their legal responsibilities in the hope that some may learn from the experiences of others. Until now, these prosecutions were published in the Legally Yours section of the SAFE Manitoba newsletter distributed by the Workplace Safety and Health Division – but now you can also read them online, right here in the Prosecutions section.
Any similarity between the names of persons charged and those not connected with the infraction or operation are coincidental.
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| Company/person: |
Interlake Potato Farms Ltd |
| Sector: |
Manufacturing |
| Amount (eg: 15000.12): |
$15,000.00 |
| Date of penalty: |
January 10, 2012 |
A worker received 2nd & 3rd degree burns to the hands and face from an electrical arc flash from a main breaker panel. The company was fined for failing to ensure that an electrical worker de-energized electrical panels before their removal.
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| Company/person: |
Clint Todd Contracting |
| Amount (eg: 15000.12): |
$24,050.00 |
| Date of penalty: |
January 27, 2011 |
A worker was working on a residential roof. He was not wearing fall protection when he fell approximately 12m to the concrete driveway below. He broke both heels and both ankles, and fractured his L3 vertebrae. The company was fined for failing to provide the necessary fall protection systems.
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| Company/person: |
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority |
| Amount (eg: 15000.12): |
$78,050.00 |
| Date of penalty: |
January 13, 2011 |
A worker sustained lacerations and bruising to his left ear, head, scalp, and left arm when his head and left arm were trapped between an industrial washing machine and a laundry hopper. The company was fined for failing to provide a LX445 Lavatec Washer-Extractor with optional metal hopper attachment that prevented a worker from coming into contact with the moving parts of the machine.
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| Company/person: |
Toromont Industries Ltd. |
| Amount (eg: 15000.12): |
$75,000.00 |
| Date of penalty: |
December 16, 2010 |
A worker was fatally injured when his head was crushed between the pavement and the frame of the fork lift truck that he was servicing. The company was fined for failing to provide and maintain a workplace, necessary equipment, systems and tools that were safe and without risk to health by failing to provide a worker with tire chocks.
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| Company/person: |
6539963 Canada Ltd. |
| Amount (eg: 15000.12): |
$36,100.00 |
| Date of penalty: |
December 9, 2010 |
A worker’s right pinky finger was amputated below the second knuckle from a metal cutting shear blade. The company was fined for failing to ensure that a worker used procedures, in the course of operating a metal shear, that minimized risk to safety, and for failing to notify the Workplace Safety and Health Division of a serious incident involving the worker, immediately after the incident occurred.
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| Company/person: |
Gerald Shepell |
| Amount (eg: 15000.12): |
$30,000.00 |
| Date of penalty: |
November 18, 2010 |
A worker was fatally injured when the worker fell into a load of asphalt in a trailer and came out through the tailgate along with the asphalt. The company was fined for failing to ensure the safety, health and welfare at work by allowing a worker to be in close proximity to a load of asphalt.
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| Company/person: |
St. Boniface Pallet Company |
| Amount (eg: 15000.12): |
$42,100.00 |
| Date of penalty: |
July 15, 2010 |
A worker’s middle finger was partly amputated when the worker’s left hand contacted an unguarded cutting blade. The company was fined for failing to guard a chamfer beveller, failing to ensure the worker used proper procedures, failing to conduct a job hazard analysis for the use of the chamfer beveller, and failing to develop and implement safe work procedures for machinery in the workplace, including the chamfer beveller.
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| Company/person: |
Grandeur Housing |
| Amount (eg: 15000.12): |
$42,050.00 |
| Date of penalty: |
July 15, 2010 |
A worker’s left thumb was partly amputated when the worker’s hand contacted an unguarded, rotating saw blade. The company was fined for failing to conduct a job hazard analysis for the use of the table saw.
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| Company/person: |
Western Scrap Metals Inc. |
| Amount (eg: 15000.12): |
$42,050.00 |
| Date of penalty: |
June 10, 2010 |
A worker’s middle finger was amputated and thumb cut when the worker’s right hand contacted an unguarded saw blade. The company was fined for failing to ensure that a worker used procedures, in the course of changing a saw blade on a table saw, that minimized risk to safety.
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| Company/person: |
Canadian Tool and Die Ltd. |
| Amount (eg: 15000.12): |
$33,000.00 |
| Date of penalty: |
April 1, 2010 |
A worker's left thumb was crushed and partially amputated after it was caught between the moving parts of a hydraulic press machine. The company was fined for failing to ensure that a worker used procedures which minimized risk to safety in the course of operating a hydraulic press machine.