Canadian BBR fined for bridge-worker injury

Canadian BBR Inc. was fined $55,000 on April 13 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that caused an injury to a worker.

BURLINGTON, Ont.

Canadian BBR Inc. was fined $55,000 on April 13 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that caused an injury to a worker.

On August 1, 2008, the company had been subcontracted to work on a new bridge over Sixteen Mile Creek in Oakville.

This was part of a project to reconstruct Dundas Street West between Neyagawa Boulevard and Proudfoot Trail. A worker was using a machine to pull a wire through a duct when the worker’s fingers got caught in the machine’s pulley system.

Several of the worker’s fingers were partially crushed.

A Ministry of Labour investigation found that there were no guards on the machine to prevent a worker’s fingers from getting caught.

-DCN News Services