CALEDON, ONT. — A foreman employed by Road-Ex Contracting Ltd. has been fined $20,000 after a worker was fatally injured by a rock truck at a jobsite in Caledon, Ont. in 2022.
According to an Ontario court bulletin, on June 1, 2022, workers from Road-Ex and a subcontractor were constructing a new driveway as part of a commercial building project.
Alfredo Piluso was supervising the workers and acting as the signaler for the rock truck operated by a worker employed by the subcontractor.
The rock truck was being filled with soil by an adjacent excavator, the bulletin explains. When the truck was full, the operator went back to the rock truck to move the load of soil.
Piluso signalled the operator to haul the load and then turned away from signalling the rock truck to take measurements of the soil grade where the excavator was actively digging.
The operator of the rock truck did not see a worker standing in the intended path of travel due to an obstructed view, the bulletin describes.
“Piluso turned his attention back to the rock truck when he heard its air brake release, but it was too late to signal the operator to stop the rock truck, which fatally injured the worker,” it adds.
By performing other work while acting as a signaller, Piluso failed, as a worker, to work in compliance with sections 104(3) and 106(1) of Ontario Regulation 213/91, contrary to section 28(1)(a) of Occupational Health and Safety Act.
On May 1, 2024, following a guilty plea in the Ontario Court of Justice in Orangeville, Piluso was fined by Justice James Chaffe.
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