TORONTO — GMJ Electric Inc. of Bradford, Ont. has been fined $110,000 after a worker fell from a ladder and suffered permanent injuries while performing electrical wiring work.
The incident occurred May 10, 2016 at 27 Fasken Dr. in Toronto, where a new office building was being constructed and an existing building was being renovated. The conviction was released in August with sentencing Oct. 16.
Following a trial, the electrical contracting company was fined $100,000 and a supervisor was fined $10,000 by Justice of the Peace Mark Conacher in a Toronto court.
The victim was employed by GMJ Electric Inc., which was contracted by Santoro Construction Ltd. to carry out all electrical installations for the project.
According to a release issued by the Ministry of Labour, two workers were tying and labelling electrical wiring in the ceiling of a renovated office area. One worker was working from a 10-foot stepladder and reaching into an area above the grid of a dropped ceiling when he fell from the ladder to the floor, suffering permanent injuries.
GMJ Electric was convicted of failing, as an employer, to provide information, instruction and supervision to a worker to protect the health or safety of the worker, contrary to section 25(2)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, states the release.
GMJ Electric was further convicted of failing to ensure the measures and procedures prescribed by section 125(1) of the Construction Projects Regulation (Ontario Regulation 213/91) were carried out at a project, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Specifically, this involved failing to ensure that a scaffold was provided for a worker.
The supervisor was also convicted of failing to ensure that a worker works in the manner and with the protective devices, measures and procedures prescribed by section 125(1) of the Construction Projects Regulation contrary to section 27(1)(a) of the act.
Santoro Construction Inc. was previously convicted of failing, as a constructor, to ensure the measures and procedures prescribed by section 125(1) of the Construction Projects Regulation were carried out at a construction project and fined $90,000 in Toronto court on April 3, 2018.
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