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Hundreds of current and former Norfolk Southern Railway workers are filing claims against the company, alleging it knew for decades about hazardous chemicals and conditions on the job and failed… …
Health Canada and waste management organizations across British Columbia are warning employers and workers about a sharp rise in discarded nitrous oxide cylinders showing up in municipal garbage and recycling… …
A worker drowned in October 2023 after a workboat operated by a marine towing company capsized in high winds off the coast. The worker made a distress call before the… …
Prairie Mines & Royalty ULC has been ordered to pay $360,000 after a worker died at a mine site near Warburg, Alta. The company pleaded guilty on July 8 in… …
By Maggie Macintosh | Winnipeg Free Press Manitoba schools are being urged to set up more “sensory rooms” and use the spaces — which can feature mood lighting, flexible seating and… …
Newfoundland and Labrador has changed how retirement benefits are calculated for injured workers, and the change applies retroactively to January 1, 2019. The amendment, passed as SNL 2026, c. 8,… …
Nova Scotia’s Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) says more injured workers are returning to their jobs sooner, one year after a new legal duty to cooperate took effect. The rule, part… …
A Calgary plumbing contractor has been fined a total of $330,000 after a worker died in a trench collapse in 2023. Mr. Mike’s Plumbing Ltd. pleaded guilty on July 13… …
A worker was seriously injured in April 2024 when a bulk container of green split peas fell on him at a food production warehouse operated by a packaged foods manufacturer,… …
WorkSafeBC has fined 0832282 B.C. Ltd., operating as a Subway Restaurant in Quesnel, B.C., $2,500 after finding the company discouraged an injured worker from filing a claim for compensation. The… …
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