VHL Developments Inc. of Toronto, a developer and builder of condominiums and residences, was fined $125,000 after a worker fell while working on a balcony under construction and was killed.
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VHL Developments Inc. of Toronto, a developer and builder of condominiums and residences, was fined $125,000 after a worker fell while working on a balcony under construction and was killed.
Workers employed by sub-contractor Excel Masonry were installing limestone at 30 Fifeshire Road in Toronto on Aug. 28, 2012. The worker was working from a scaffold system at a height of more than 2.4 metres above the ground and sustained a fatal head injury as a result of falling from the scaffold to the ground.
The worker was pronounced dead at Sunnybrook Hospital.
A Ministry of Labour investigation showed that the scaffold did not have a guardrail system to prevent access to the perimeter.
VHL Developments Inc. pleaded guilty to failing, as a constructor, to ensure that every employer and every worker performing work on the project complies with measures and procedures under section 26.3(1) of Ontario Regulation 213/91.
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