Brampton company fined $120,000 after crane operator injured on the job
Published February 10, 2022 at 1:43 pm
The Ontario Ministry of Labour has fined a Brampton company $120,000 after a crane operator was critically injured on the job back in 2020.
The ministry says the workplace incident happened on July 27, 2020, when a worker employed by Triple M was loading a railcar with scrap metal using a crane equipped with an electromagnet.
Other rail cars were waiting to be processed on an adjacent line, and the worker climbed down from the crane to release brakes on one of the cars, according to a release.
But as the man was either climbing onto the car or releasing the mechanical brakes, another crane operator shunted one of the rail cars which sent it down the tracks when it crashed into one of the other cars.
The worker was critically injured, and the ministry said the yard supervisor was on a lunch break in his office at the time of the incident.
The supervisor was reportedly the first to respond to the call over the radio when the injury occurred.
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Triple M Metal Corp, in its capacity as General Partner of Triple M Metal LP, was fined $120,000 by a Justice of the Peace following a guilty plea in January under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
The court also imposed a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge as required by the Provincial Offences Act.
The surcharge is credited to a special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.
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