BLUE MOUNTAINS, ONT. — Residential carpentry company Kingsview Carpentry Ltd. of Vaughan was convicted and fined $140,000 on Feb. 10, 2025, following a guilty plea Provincial Offences Court in Owen Sound, in relation to a worker fatality that occurred in 2023.
The incident took place at a residential construction project on Goldie Court in the Town of Blue Mountains on Feb. 22, 2023.
Kingsview Carpentry was the principal framing contractor on the project and was responsible for supervising the other framing subcontractors onsite.
Kingsview had hired Groulx Construction to install pre-engineered roof trusses on top of the garage area of a single-family home being constructed.
According to an Ontario court bulletin, in the moments leading up to the incident, workers with Groulx Construction were preparing to separate the trusses that they had previously hoisted up onto the garage walls.
Groulx Construction had built a wooden support system in the centre of the garage to help keep the roof trusses upright. The support system was not intended to function as a work platform.
A worker with Groulx Construction climbed on top of the support system to reposition the trusses, but the support system broke. The worker was not wearing any kind of fall protection and fell to ground below, sustaining a fatal injury.
As a result of an investigation Kingsview Carpentry Ltd. failed, as an employer, to provide the worker with a scaffold, suspended work platform, boatswain’s chair or multi-point suspended work platform that met the requirements of Ontario Regulation 213/91, contrary to section 125(1) of that regulation. This is contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
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