Tag: Ontario Ministry of Labour
Two companies fined $145K for fatal construction-site injury
Two companies face a combined $145,000 in fines for a workplace death on a construction project west of Strathroy, the province says. The Ministry of Labour announced Tuesday a $130,000 fine against farming and construction company Agro Acres and a $15,000 fine against contractor Nick De Jong of De Jong Excavating for a fatal workplace […]
Worker injured in fall at Southgate construction site
The Ontario Ministry of Labour is investigating after a worker was seriously injured in a fall at a construction site in Southgate on Wednesday. At about 1 p.m. Grey Bruce OPP responded to the construction site along with Grey County EMS and the Dundalk Fire Department. A 20-year-old Linwood resident fell approximately eight metres from […]
London community centre gym closed for carbon monoxide investigation
The gymnasium at Boyle Community Centre will be closed for weeks as the Ministry of Labour investigates a carbon monoxide leak that sent six people to hospital Monday morning.
Friends raising money for family of man, 37, killed at work
Friends of a young father originally from Strathroy who was killed at a precast concrete manufacturing plant are raising money to support his two young children and his mother. Nick Wood, 37, died May 23 in a workplace incident at Fritz-Alder Precast, in the Bruce County community of Chepstow. The company produces large concrete walls […]
Amazon worker’s widow wants ‘meaningful change’ for all families
The widow of a worker at a London-area Amazon plant who died after he collapsed at work says it’s a relief the Ministry of Labour will share the results of its probe into her husband’s death.