M & M Painting and Sand Blasting Ltd. of Cayuga, Ontario was fined $70,000 for a violation of the provincial Occupational Health and Safety Act in connection with an accident in which a worker was injured in Hamilton.
On May 9, 2010 workers from M & M Painting and Sand Blasting, based in Cayuga about 45 kilometres south of Hamilton, were painting structural steel components.
“A steel sheave was resting on the forks of a forklift while workers spray painted it from below,” the Ministry of Labour stated in a press release. “It was not secured to the forks. A gust of wind blew the sheave, causing it to fall off the forklift and seriously injure a worker.”
The $70,000 fine was imposed by Justice of the Peace Paul Welsh in Ontario Superior Court in Hamilton.
The relevant section of the Occupational Health and Safety Act is Ontario Regulation 851, Section 46, which states: “Machinery, equipment or material that may tip or fall and endanger any worker shall be secured against tipping or falling.”
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