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Ottawa-based scaffolding company Swing N Scaff was fined $350,000 and its president $50,000 by an Ontario judge in connection with deaths of four workers and the serious injury of another five years ago at a Toronto highrise.
Judge Mara Greene of the Ontario Court of Justice in Toronto imposed the fines Thursday on the firm and its president, Patrick Deschamps, of Rockland, after the company pleaded guilty to failing to ensure that a suspended platform supplied to Merton Construction Corp. was in good condition or to make sure the platform, which weighed more than 525 kilograms, was designed by a professional engineer.
Ontario’s 25-per-cent victim surcharge brings the total fine to $500,000.
On Christmas Eve, 2009, six workers were on a 13-meter swing stage suspended 13 floors above ground doing balcony restoration on the Kipling Avenue building when it broke in the middle and collapsed.
Four fell to their deaths while another was seriously injured. A sixth man who was wearing a safety harness was not hurt.
Labour department investigators found that welds on the platform were “inadequate,” the ministry said in a release Thursday.
Metron Construction was convicted of criminal negligence in the accident, which horrified Toronto and spurred changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Act to better protect workers. The company paid a fine of $750,000. Metron’s owner was fined $90,000.
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Judge Mara Greene of the Ontario Court of Justice in Toronto imposed the fines Thursday on the firm and its president, Patrick Deschamps, of Rockland, after the company pleaded guilty to failing to ensure that a suspended platform supplied to Merton Construction Corp. was in good condition or to make sure the platform, which weighed more than 525 kilograms, was designed by a professional engineer.
Ontario’s 25-per-cent victim surcharge brings the total fine to $500,000.
On Christmas Eve, 2009, six workers were on a 13-meter swing stage suspended 13 floors above ground doing balcony restoration on the Kipling Avenue building when it broke in the middle and collapsed.
Four fell to their deaths while another was seriously injured. A sixth man who was wearing a safety harness was not hurt.
Labour department investigators found that welds on the platform were “inadequate,” the ministry said in a release Thursday.
Metron Construction was convicted of criminal negligence in the accident, which horrified Toronto and spurred changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Act to better protect workers. The company paid a fine of $750,000. Metron’s owner was fined $90,000.
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