A Toronto construction company has been fined $150,000 in connection to a job site death in 2018 at a residential building in Central Hamilton.
A Hamilton justice of the peace imposed the cash fine after a Ministry of Labour investigation revealed a worker was not protected by a guardrail or travel restraint system while on the roof of a 13-storey residential building at 57 Forest Ave. near John Street south.
The ministry said the death was tied to the restoration of balconies performed from a suspended swing stage. The fall happened while two workers were doing measurements for the location of a new beam on the building.
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The pair were not wearing any sort of fall protection equipment, according to the ministry.
Investigators say the fallen worker inadvertently walked off the edge of the building while extending a measuring tape.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act requires protection equipment when working at a height of more than three metres.
Etobicoke construction and restoration company Welldone Inc. pleaded guilty in the matter.
