STONEY CREEK, ONT. — Steel processing company Janco Steel Ltd. of Stoney Creek, Ont. has been fined in relation to a 2022 incident where one worker was killed in a struck-by incident.
On April 26, 2022, a worker was operating an overhead crane, offloading a large steel coil from a transport truck to a weight scale.
While performing the task and looking up at the load, the worker walked backwards into an interior driveway where a large industrial forklift was travelling, states a court bulletin.
The operator of the forklift did not see the worker and could not see the area immediately in front of the coil being moved by the worker.
The forklift operator was driving two to three kilometres per hour and immediately stopped the forklift when another worker yelled, but it had already fatally struck the operator of the overhead crane.
An investigation by the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development found the company failed, as an employer, to ensure the operation of the Taylor Forklift, model X650L, was directed by a signaller when its operator did not have a full view of the intended path of travel.
Following a guilty plea in Provincial Offences Court, Hamilton, on April 2, 2025, Janco Steel Ltd. was fined $200,000 by Justice of the Peace Butany-Goyal.
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