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A Vancouver-based mining company has been fined $135,000 after a worker was injured while removing a power cable from a mine shaft near Sudbury. DMC Mining Services Ltd. pleaded guilty… …

Orbit Garant Drilling Services Inc. was fined $100,000 after a worker was injured by an unguarded drill rig at an underground mine in Porcupine, Ont. The Val-d’Or, Que.-based company pleaded… …

An aviation parts manufacturer has been fined $60,000 after a worker was seriously injured when a pressurized paint container exploded at a Niagara-on-the-Lake facility. Genaire Limited pleaded guilty in December… …

NOVA Chemicals Corporation has been fined $130,000 after a worker suffered serious injuries when hot liquid was discharged from an exhaust stack during maintenance work at the company’s Corunna, Ont.,… …

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The Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development will conduct targeted inspections of stone, steel, and concrete pre-cast businesses in Central Ontario between Feb. 16 and March 31… …

Canada’s Building Trades Unions has unanimously passed a resolution to harmonize national safety certification standards for construction workers, aiming to eliminate interprovincial barriers that prevent tradespeople from moving between provinces… …

The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board is now offering rebates of up to $2,500 to construction companies that buy automated external defibrillators for qualifying projects across Ontario. The program launched… …

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