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• Loaded cattle truck collides with train near Carberry
  Posted Feb 2, 2012 A train and semi-tractor trailer loaded with cattle collided in heavy fog at a controlled railway crossing near Carberry.
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• Bystanders help security guard being beaten by grocery thieves
  Posted Feb 2, 2012 Bystanders came to the aid of a security guard who was being beaten by two people he had stopped after they left a store without paying for a cart of groceries.
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• Police say no one hurt after municipal salt truck plows into home
  Posted Feb 2, 2012 No one was hurt when a municipal salt truck plowed through the front section of a house in Trenton, N.S.
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• Sawdust problems recurrent at destroyed B.C. mill, but information wasn't shared
  Posted Feb 2, 2012 Two separate safety monitoring agencies flagged sawdust as a concern at a northern British Columbia sawmill that exploded, but it doesn't appear they shared the information about the potential hazard.
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• Interlake Potato Farms Ltd fined $15,000
  Posted Jan 31, 2012 A worker received 2nd & 3rd degree burns to the hands and face from an electrical arc flash from a main breaker panel.
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• Alberta bolsters safety rules after disabled man dies from scalding in bath
  Posted Jan 31, 2012 Alberta is bringing in new safety standards after a mute, severely disabled man in government care died from scalding injuries he suffered while being bathed.
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• Mine death leads Vale to suspend Sudbury operations
  Posted Jan 31, 2012 Vale's general manager for Ontario says operations at all five mines in the Sudbury area will be suspended indefinitely while the death of a miner — 47-year-old Stephen Perry — is investigated.
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• Extensive cleanup underway after B.C. substation fire
  Posted Jan 31, 2012 An extensive cleanup is underway at a BC Hydro substation near Chilliwack after a fire engulfed the structure.
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• 54-year-old limousine driver dies following crash
  Posted Jan 31, 2012 A 19-year-old driver was arrested after his pickup truck allegedly crossed the centre line and crashed into a limousine going the opposite direction.
  The limo exploded and was engulfed in flames, killing the driver and lone occupant.
  
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• Marathon Drilling Co. Ltd. Fined $65,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted Jan 31, 2012 Marathon Drilling Co. Ltd., was fined $65,000 after a worker received an electric shock and was seriously burned.
  
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• Parmalat Canada Inc. Fined $100,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted Jan 31, 2012 Parmalat Canada Inc., was fined $100,000 after a worker received first and second degree burns while working on a hot water valve.
  
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• In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad
  Posted Jan 30, 2012 Workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions, according to employees inside those plants, worker advocates and documents published by companies themselves. Problems are as varied as onerous work environments and serious — sometimes deadly — safety problems.
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• Worker burned in mishap
  Posted Jan 30, 2012 Emergency crews responded to Spirol Industries in response to calls that an electrical contractor was injured while working on a machine near the roof.
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• Worker killed in Vale mine in Sudbury, Ont.
  Posted Jan 30, 2012 A 47-year-old man, who had been with the company for 16 years, died when some rock was displaced and fell on him. This is the third fatality at a Vale mine in the area in the past eight months.
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• Fire at Trenton plant damages building
  Posted Jan 30, 2012 Nova Forge Corp. is hoping to keep 20 jobs after a fire started in a building housing the company’s pumps.
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• Surveyor refused to do job because of safety concerns
  Posted Jan 27, 2012 The surveyor testified that he refused to work on a 30-metre wall around a pit being excavated because of safety issues - - the day before the wall collapsed and killed 47-year-old truck driver Randy Williams
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• Sturgeon Tire fire blamed on air compressor
  Posted Jan 26, 2012 The Sturgeon Tire fire -- Brandon's biggest blaze in several years -- may have been sparked by an aging air compressor.
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• Latest accident at CHUM site raises safety concerns
  Posted Jan 26, 2012 Quebec union leaders are raising questions about the safety of workers at the CHUM superhospital construction sites.
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• School board charged in death of Eric Leighton
  Posted Jan 26, 2012 The Ottawa Catholic District School Board is facing charges after the death of Eric Leighton, 18, who was killed after a metal drum he was cutting in class exploded.
  
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• B.C. asbestos contractor jailed for 'indifference' to worker safety
  Posted Jan 26, 2011 The owner of a company that exposed workers as young as 14 years old to asbestos during home demolitions has been sentenced to 60 days in jail for contempt of a court order.
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• Man escapes guards at HSC
  Posted Jan 24, 2012 Stephane Martin Bissonnette escaped Provincial Remand Guards at the Health Sciences Centre.
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• Manufacturer Fined $70,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted Jan 24, 2012 Washington Mills Electro Minerals Corporation, was fined $70,000 after a worker recieved third degree burns and serious injuries to the torso and hip.
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• Scotlynn Investments Inc. Fined $50,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted Jan 24, 2012 Scotlynn Investments Inc. pleaded guilty to failing to take the reasonable precaution of providing a guard or other device to prevent workers from accessing the moving parts of the ginseng tumbler and conveyor system.
  
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• Fishermen, whose bodies found on N.S. shore, identified as brothers
  Posted Jan 23, 2012 Police have identified two brothers who died following an evening ATV expedition to the shoreline of a town in northern Nova Scotia.
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• ‘Fireball’ injures 19 in massive B.C. mill explosion, 2 missing
  Posted Jam 23, 2012 Workers were forced to jump from the second-storey as their colleagues on the ground fought desperately to push their way in to rescue others after the sawmill they were working at was blown apart by an explosion and fire.
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• All charges stayed in fatal collapse of Camrose stage
  Posted Jan 23, 2012 Alberta Justice has stayed all 33 charges against three companies in connection with a stage collapse at the 2009 Big Valley Jamboree that killed one woman and injured 75.
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• Truck destroyed when it catches fire on Trans-Canada
  Posted Jan 20, 2012 A tractor-trailer driver noticed something was wrong with his rig Thursday morning and pulled over, just as it burst into flames
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• Pronger's concussion taking toll on family
  
  Posted Jan 20, 2012 Lauren Pronger had some candid comments about how her husband, Philadelphia Flyers defenceman Chris Pronger, is dealing with his concussion which will keep him away from work for the rest of the season.
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• Several Jets take risk in warm-up
  Posted Jan 20, 2012 In the wake of a scary accident with the Edmonton Oilers in pre-game warm-up there were still 10 players on the ice Thursday night at the MTS Centre who didn't wear their helmets prior to the game.
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• Canadian skier Sarah Burke dies from injuries sustained in superpipe accident
  Posted Jan 20, 2012 The pioneering Canadian freestyler, who helped get superpipe accepted into the Olympics, died Thursday after a Jan. 10 crash during a training run in Park City, Utah.
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• Tow truck driver killed on job had safety training
  Posted Jan 20, 2012 A tow truck operator struck and killed by a passing car while he was changing a tire had only been on the job for three months and had completed a one-day, basic safety training course.
  
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• Driver struck while changing a tire
  Posted Jan 20, 2012 Police are still investigating the death of a tow truck driver who was struck by a vehicle.
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• Municipal worker hospitalized after fall
  Posted Jan 20, 2012 A municipal employee in Amherst was taken to hospital with undetermined injuries after slipping on ice and falling down a wastewater hole.
  
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• Weyburn contractor fined for safety violations
  Posted Jan 19, 2012 Mark Bostock of Bostock Builders was guilty of failure to utilize a fall protection system, ensure a place of employment was sufficiently and competently supervised, and ensure that no person under the age of 16 years is employed on a construction site.
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• Pilot killed in RCMP helicopter crash near Chilliwack
  Posted Jan 18, 2012 A 46-year-old civilian member of the RCMP died after the Air 5 helicopter he was flying crashed in a rural area in Cultus Lake, near Chilliwack.
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• Man injured in Selkirk steel mill explosion
  Posted Jan 16, 2012 One person sustained minor injuries during a steam explosion at the steel mill in Selkirk.
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• Robbers flee Arrowhead gaming centre with cash
  Posted Jan 16, 2012 Two armed men showed off a gun as they robbed the Arrowhead Gaming Centre. They entered the Long Plain First Nation facility and demanded money from the cash register.
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• Que. man stabs city workers in the head
  Posted Jan 16, 2012 A man was arrested after allegedly stabbing two city workers in the head at their workplace.
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• Man recovering after being crushed by crane boom
  Posted Jan 16, 2012 A man was helping dismantle a crane, loading the boom onto a flatbed truck when the boom fell and crushed him causing a broken leg and broken pelvis.
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• Coroner tells SaskEnergy to review safety training after work deaths
  Posted Jan 16, 2012 Multiple errors by SaskEnergy and its workers contributed to the 2008 explosion that killed two men. The report into the deaths of Jack Boxall and his son, Brent, recommends SaskEnergy review its policies and safety training.
  
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• Toronto police officer hurt as cruiser hits bus
  Posted Jan 16, 2012 A Toronto police sergeant was taken to hospital after her cruiser struck the side of a transit bus at high speed in the city's east end.
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• Holt Renfrew Fined $55,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted Jan 16, 2012 A Holt Renfrew employee was working on a cardboard compactor when the machine's discharge door attempting to eject a bale of cardboard when the door suddenly flew open. The worker was hit by the door and pinned against a steel column. The worker suffered multiple fractures.
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• Worker killed at well site near Whitecourt
  Posted Jan 12, 2012 - A 28-year-old man is dead after he was exposed to hydrogen sulphide gas while working on a well site
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• New charges in military training death
  Posted Jan 13, 2012 The Department of National Defence said investigators allege that the proper safety procedures were not followed during the training exercise that led to Cpl. Baker’s death.
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• Health region cited for OHS violations
  Posted Jan 13, 2012 The Saskatoon Health Region failed to ensure a safe workplace for employees at a Humboldt long-term care home where carbon monoxide exposure last year was implicated in the deaths of three residents and sick days for seven employees
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• 4 killed, 1 sent to hospital after plane crash in northwestern Ontario
  Posted Jan 12, 2012 A Keystone Air plane crash killed 4 people in northwestern Ontario in the North Spirit Lake area. There was one passenger who survived.
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• Trucker killed in multi-vehicle Coquihalla Highway crash
  Posted Jan 12, 2012 Officers say three semi trucks slammed into one another and a number of other vehicles were also involved. A man was killed when he got out of his truck after it had been hit. He was then struck by another semi in a chain-reaction crash.
  
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• No inquest in Nipawin explosion
  Posted Jan 12, 2012 In a November Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) trial for the Nipawin track hoe operator who struck the gas line, court heard a litany of errors was committed by SaskEnergy and its employees before and after the explosion.
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• Roblin IGA consumed by fire
  Posted Jan 11, 2012 Approximately $750,000 damages were done to the IGA grocery store in Roblin.
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• Worker injured at new wind farm site
  Posted Jan 11, 2012 A worker helping to disassemble crane components sustained a leg injury Tuesday in Norway, P.E.I. when he was struck by a block of wood.
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• Country Ribbon charged after industrial accident
  Posted Jan 11, 2012 Country Ribbon has been charged after an employee lost three fingers while the worker was cleaning a machine at the company's chicken processing plant.
  
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• SAFE Schools Grant Recipients Announced
  The SAFE Schools Grant contest was launched in April 2011 to engage Manitoba's youth in the promotion of safety and health.
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• Thousands of chicks killed in Alberta barn fire
  Posted Jan 12, 2012 Nearly 22,000 chicks are dead in the aftermath of a poultry barn fire just north of Lethbridge, Alta.
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• Distracted drivers killing fewer British Columbians since law came in, government says
  Posted Jan 9, 2012 “Between Feb. 1, 2010 and Sept. 30, 2011, police issued 46,008 tickets to drivers for using a hand-held electronic device while driving,”
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• Concussion is now ultimate work-place safety matter in hockey
  Posted Jan 9, 2012 It’s not too much to say that Sidney Crosby has been an agent of change, despite sitting on the sidelines helplessly as the Pittsburgh Penguins season and his career go by in the fog that is post-concussion syndrome.
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• Driver killed in head-on crash with ambulance
  Posted Jan 6, 2012 A 54-year-old driver of a small car died in a head-on crash with an ambulance near Souris. Two paramedics in the ambulance also suffered serious injuries, and one is listed in critical condition.
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• Workers hurt at Toronto subway construction site
  Posted Jan 6, 2012 At least two construction workers were injured and one was rushed to hospital following an accident at a subway tunnel excavation site near Toronto's York University.
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• Westario Power facing charges in worker's death
  Posted Jan 5, 2012 Brodie Schwartz, 25, of Elmwood, died in Southampton hospital after the mishap on Sept. 21, 2010. He was working in a Port Elgin power substation at the time of the mishap
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• Man gets 21 days for spitting in face of TTC worker
  Posted Jan 5, 2012 A 19-year-old man has been sentenced to 21 days in jail for spitting in the face of a Toronto Transit Commission supervisor.
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• Construction worker survives 10-foot fall
  Posted Jan 5, 2012 A construction worker in his 50s has been rushed to hospital after falling down a hole while working on a construction site in downtown Toronto.
  
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• Raging inferno strikes plant
  Posted Jan 3, 2012 Eight firefighters were forced to beat a hasty retreat after a blast tore through the north wall of Omniglass on Sherwin Road early Monday. One firefighter was treated in hospital for minor injuries
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• Drunk driving charges after paramedic struck
  Posted Jan 3, 2012 A paramedic attending to victims of a motor vehicle crash Monday ended up needing medical attention himself.
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• Fleeing thief throws chemical at Polo Park security
  Posted Jan 3, 2011 A Polo Park security guard was taken to hospital after a thief brandished a knife and threw a chemical at the guard.
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• Robber was armed with machete
  Posted Jan 2, 2012, A man armed with a machete robbed a retail store in the 500-block of Selkirk Avenue when he confronted a lone male clerk before damaging the cash register and fleeing the store with merchandise.
  
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• Volunteer firefighter killed in Enderby, B.C., fire
  Posted Jan 2, 2012 The community of Enderby, B.C., is grieving after a volunteer firefighter was killed and another was injured by a fire and an explosion that tore through a log home construction business in the north Okanagan region.
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• Stop-work order issued to Edmonton business after fatal accident
  Posted Jan 2, 2012 , A 62-year-old man died after he was caught between the moving parts of a forklift as he worked at Lift Boss in Edmonton.
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• Firefighter dies en route to blaze
  Posted Dec 29, 2011 Paul Nelson, 21, was a young, enthusiastic and dedicated volunteer firefighter who had been on the job only 16 months.
  
  
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• Suspect sought in armed robbery
  Posted Dec 27, 2011 Police are looking for a suspect after a Main Street convenience store was robbed by a man armed with a metal bar or pipe. The robber made off with an undisclosed amount of money.
  
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• Gas leak forces 160 from North York seniors home
  Posted Dec 23, 2011 After members of the kitchen staff complained of feeling dizzy and nauseous, firefighters were called and detected high carbon monoxide levels and promptly evacuated the building.
  
  
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• Female Mounties to file suit against RCMP
  Posted Dec 22, 2011 Helene Desabrais is one of dozens of female Mounties, both past and present, who will file a class-action lawsuit against the force within the next two weeks.
  
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• Man dead following Etobicoke industrial accident
  Posted Dec 22, 2011 A man is dead after an industrial accident when the man was working on a and became trapped under a transmission.
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• Man rushed to hospital after industrial accident
  Posted Dec 22, 2011 A 38-year-old man was rushed to Sunnybrook hospital after working on a retaining wall when the dirt beneath him gave way and he fell into a trench. As a result, he was left unconscious and buried up to his waist in dirt.
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• Man killed in workplace mishap in Milton
  Posted Dec 22, 2011 The 28-year-old construction worker was killed Tuesday afternoon at a mushroom farm after he was run over by a front end loader.
  
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• City fined for accident that injured two workers
  Posted Dec 22, 2011 The City of Corner Brook has been fined $7,000 and must contribute another $2,500 to the provincial government to conduct a public education event supporting workplace safety awareness after pleading guilty to offences under occupational health and safety legislation
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• Minnedosa Hotel owner traps intruder in cooler, calls police
  Posted Dec 21, 2011 The owner of the Valley Motor Lodge interrupted a break and enter when he found two men inside the hotel just before 5 a.m., near the beer cooler.
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• Raised dump truck box causes crash
  Posted Dec 21, 2011 Sections of the Chief Peguis Trail and the Rothesay overpass were temporarily closed after a dump truck hit the structure Tuesday afternoon in Winnipeg.
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• SaR tech who died in northern rescue mission lost life-raft in icy waters: report
  Posted Dec 21, 2011 The Defence Department has released a preliminary report into the death of an airman who died during a rescue mission in Nunavut.
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• Report says derailment was caused by operator fatigue
  Posted Dec 21, 2011 A TSB report concludes that a recent derailment was caused by operator fatigue.
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• Man charged in death of pedestrian
  Posted Dec 21, 2011 Initially police said a man was killed after being struck by a reversing tractor-trailer in the parking lot of Fiera Foods but investigatiom revealed that the man was knocked to the ground by a car that fled the scene before he was hit by the truck.
  
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• Enbridge Gas fined in fatal blast
  Posted Dec 20, 2011 Enbridge Gas and one of its subcontractors have been fined more than $1.1 million for safety violations related to a devastating 2003 explosion in Etobicoke that killed seven people.
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• Company fined under OHS act
  Posted Dec 20, 2011 A Saskatoon roofing company has been fined $2,500 for not providing its employees with protection from falling.
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• Prosecution raises alarm for volunteer firefighters
  Posted dec 20, 2011 A rare prosecution involving an Ontario town’s volunteer fire department has raised concern among firefighters that legal hazards may be among the dangers they face in responding to emergencies.
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• Arrests made in hold up
  Posted Dec 19, 2011 A robbery took place in the 1000 block of Marion when three suspects approached two clerks and demanded cash from the till.
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• Cabbie uninjured in robbery
  Posted Dec 19, 2011 A city cabbie escaped uninjured after being threatened and robbed while driving two men on Saturday night.
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• Transportation Safety Board says rail defect led to Airdrie derailment
  Posted December 16, 2011 An internal defect in a section of rail likely led to last year’s derailment of a Canadian Pacific train carrying anhydrous ammonia.
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• Corrections employee taken hostage in Quebec prison freed after nine hours
  Posted Dec 14, 2011 A corrections employee was taken hostage by an inmate and then freed after a nine-hour ordeal at a federal prison in Quebec's Eastern Townships.
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• Cops track cabbie-robber to nearby home
  Posted Dec 13, 2011 Police have a man in custody after a cabbie was robbed by what looked like a handgun in Winnipeg's North End.
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• Peton Distributors ULC Fined $70,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted dec 12, 2011 Peton Distributors ULC, a distribution warehouse for Pet Valu stores, was fined $70,000 after a worker was injured when struck by a pallet truck.
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• Saskatchewan miners surface after elevator glitch
  Posted Dec 12, 2011 Workers at the Cigar Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan spent several hours below ground while a broken elevator was tended to.
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• Truck Company and Supervisor Fined $115,000 Total After Worker Killed
  December 8, 2011 Delta Truck Equipment, a truck maintenance company, was fined $100,000 after a worker was killed. Phillip Hutton, a supervisor, was fined $15,000 in relation to the same incident.
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• Walmart charged in teen's workplace death
  Posted Dec 7, 2011 Walmart and one of its employees have been charged in the electrocution death of a 17-year-old New Brunswick worker earlier this year.
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• Health region permanently closes laundry facility
  Posted Dec 7, 2011 Earlier this month a hoist carrying bags of laundry fell from the ceiling of the facility. No one was hurt in the incident, but it led the health region to temporarily halt laundry operations.
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• ‘Tragic accident’ killed man hanging Christmas lights, widow says
  Posted Dec 6, 2011 Chad Moore was a veteran landscaper who wouldn’t have touched a power line with a metal tool while stringing Christmas lights on a large outdoor tree in Guelph, his widow said Monday.
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• Teen injured in workplace explosion
  Posted Dec 6, 2011 Quebec health and safety authorities are investigating whether a 16-year-old male who sustained serious injuries Sunday night from an exploding oil drum on the outskirts of Quebec City was properly trained.
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• Contractor set to be sentenced for exposing teens to asbestos
  Posted Dec 6, 2011 WorkSafeBC inspectors found that Arthur Moore of AM Environmental used employees as young as 14 years of age to remove asbestos-contaminated drywall from homes being demolished without providing them any protection.
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• A 29-year-old Elora man dies from stringing Christmas lights at a Guelph home
  Posted Dec 5, 2011 While stringing Christmas lights on a nearly 30-foot blue spruce tree on Harrison Avenue, a worker was electrocuted and died.
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• Worker dies after wall collapses on him in Sherbrooke
  Dec 5, 2011 A 41-year-old man is dead and another man is seriously injured after the walls of a house they were renovating collapsed.
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• Weyburn contractor fined for safety violations
  Posted Dec 5, 2011 Glenn Nimegeers of Nimegeers Construction, has pleaded guilty to three counts under the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act related to a failure to ensure workers use a fall protection system and appropriate footwear.
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• Quebec police officer hit by truck dies
  Posted Dec 5. 2011 A Bromont municipal police officer has died after he was hit by a truck on the side of a road during a traffic stop.
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• Oxford Plastics Inc. Fined $50,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted Dec 5, 2011 Oxford Plastics Inc., was fined $50,000 after a worker was making an adjustment to a machine that held large coils of plastic tubing. The worker was underneath the plastic tubing when one of the coils fell off.
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• Fire guts restaurant on Trans-Canada
  Posted Dec 1, 2011 A charred pile of rubble is all that remains of part of the Maple Inn, which is located along the Trans-Canada Highway.
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• Supermarket cashier stabbed; customers hold suspect for police
  Posted Dec 1, 2011 A cashier at a Broadway supermarket was stabbed Tuesday afternoon and customers rushed in to help
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• Workers burned in cleaning accident at Molson plant
  Posted Dec 1, 2011 Two workers suffered significant burns while operating a bottle-cleaning machine when they were sprayed with what safety officials described as acid.
  
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• Man killed in Trois-Rivières silo accident
  Posted Dec 1, 2011 One man is dead after plunging more than 30 metres into an empty grain silo at the Trois-Rivières port.
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• Oxford Plastics Inc. Fined $50,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted Dec 1, 2011 Oxford Plastics Inc., was fined $50,000 after a worker was injured while making an adjustment to a machine that held large coils of plastic tubing.
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• Fishermen hoisted into helicopters after vessel runs aground off Newfoundland
  Posted Dec 1, 2011 Two fishermen have been rescued by a Cormorant helicopter after their vessel ran aground off the west coast of Newfoundland.
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• Woman run over by steamroller
  Posted Nov 30, 2011 A flag person is in hospital with serious injuries to her lower body after being run over by a steamroller at a work site in Moncton.
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• Flawed designs, poor safety procedures blamed for B.C. mushroom farm deaths
  Posted Nov 30, 2011 Warnings that a composting system at a B.C. mushroom farm was potentially dangerous were repeatedly ignored before three workers died at the facility after being overcome by toxic gasses.
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• Helicopter company names instructor killed in crash at Waterloo airport
  Posted Nov 30, 2011 Great Lakes Helicopter says 29-year-old flight instructor Tiffany Hanna, and mother of two from Woodstock, was killed Monday during a routine flight training exercise.
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• Mushroom farm owners in B.C. fined $350K for deaths
  Posted Nov 28, 2011 Two companies and three owners of a Langley, B.C. mushroom farm where three men died after being overcome by toxic fumes have avoided jail time.
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• School bus involved in three vehicle collision
  Posted Nov 25, 2011 A school bus was involved in a collision with two pickup trucks on Thursday afternoon on the Trans-Canada Highway at the junction of PR 207 near Dufresne, Man.
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• Pulling over vehicle puts two officers in hospital
  Posted Nov 25, 2011 Two officers had to go to the hospital early Thursday morning after an attempt to pull over a vehicle.
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• Ruptured gas line evacuates school
  Posted Nov 25, 2011 A ruptured gas line prompted a school evacuation in north Winnipeg and brought emergency crews to the intersection of McPhillips Street and Redwood Avenue.
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• Ski Hill Operator Fined $70,000 After Worker Killed, Another Injured
  Posted Nov 25, 2011 Loch Lomond Ski Area Limited, operator of a Thunder Bay ski hill, was fined $70,000 after one worker was killed and another was injured.
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• Wind blows roof off school
  Posted Nov 25, 2011 NANTON, ALTA. - J.T. Foster School was evacuated Wednesday morning after 100 km/h winds tore the roof off the gym.
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• Alberta Court of Appeal says Chinese company can face charges in deaths of workers
  Posted Nov 24, 2011 , The Alberta Court of Appeal has decided that a Chinese corporation can face charges in Alberta court for the 2005 death of two temporary foreign workers in northern Alberta.
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• N.Y. man charged with shooting Sask. hunting guide
  Posted Nov 24, 2011 An American tourist who police say accidentally shot his guide on a hunting trip in Saskatchewan has been charged with a variety of offences.
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• Mould discovered in two more Winnipeg arenas
  Posted Nov 22, 2011 City of Winnipeg officials said environmental testing has found mould in St. Vital and Roland Michener arenas.
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• Worker dies after accident last week at GM plant
  Posted Nov 22, 2011 A worker doing contract work at the General Motors' Glendale Ave. plant, died after being injured.
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• Waste management firm BFI fined $150,000 after worker's foot run over by truck
  Posted Nov 22, 2011 BFI Canada Inc. was found guilty of failing to provide information, instruction and supervision to the worker with respect to safe operating procedures for mobile waste collection.
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• Girl killed while getting off school bus
  Posted Nov 21, 2011 A six-year-old girl was killed in Oxford House after she was run over after getting off a school bus.
  
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• Couple faces decisions after blaze destroys hotel
  Posted Non 21, 2011 Lynn and Gord Martens, the owners of the Northern Nights Hotel in Churchill are still in shock after their business burned to the ground.
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• Quebec man dead after workplace incident
  Posted Nov 21, 2011 A 61-year-old man died in hospital after a workplace incident in Perkins, Que.following an incident involving a loader.
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• Industrial accident leads to stop work order in Nisku
  Posted Nov 21, 2011 A gruesome work place incident took place at Weatherford Ampscott when the worker was manoeuvring a component of an oil field pump jack, into the ground, with the use of an overhead crane.
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• Man in hospital after worksite accident
  Posted Nov 21, 2011 A construction worker is in critical condition after scaffolding collapsed on top of him at a worksite in Brossard
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• RCMP, WCB investigate tire shop death
  Posted Nov 21, 2011 Police are investigating after a man was killed after being hit by a vehicle at a tire shop in Whitehorse.
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• Toronto school bans hard balls
  Posted Nov 21, 2011 The principal of Earl Beatty Public School banned the balls this week after a parent recently suffered a concussion from being hit in the head with a soccer ball.
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• Worker killed by snapped shackle near Lethbridge
  Posted Nov 21, 2011 A man in southern Alberta is dead after he was struck on the head while lifting a concrete block with a crane.
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• Construction trailer gutted by fire at old arena site
  Posted Nov 16, 2011 A construction trailer was gutted by a fire at the former Winnipeg Arena site and caused an estimated $8,000 in damage to the storage trailer before it was extinguished.
  
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• Contractor fined for unsafe condititions at work site
  Posted Nov 16, 2011 Dave Nicholson of Manitoba's Dave's Do It Right Construction pleaded guilty to three counts under Saskatchewan's Occupational Health and Safety Act.
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• Worker injured by saw at demolition site
  Posted Nov 15, 2011 A 27-year-old man was working to demolish a building on Booth Street near the Chaudières Bridge when his saw kicked back suffered deep cuts to his chest and upper arm.
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• Saskatoon bus driver wins seatbelt case
  Posted Nov 15, 2011 A Saskatoon bus driver who was ticketed for not wearing a seatbelt has argued successfully in court that he shouldn't have to — because he needs to be free to fend off attacks.
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• Fire at Maple Leaf plant slated for expansion
  Posted Nov 10, 2011 Workers were evacuated and sheltered in Winnipeg Transit buses after the blaze began around 3:15 p.m. at the Lagimodiere Boulevard and Marion Street plant.
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• Pair of contractors fined for infractions
  Posted Nov 10, 2011 A fatal accident on a work site near Southey almost four years ago has resulted in a fine of $15,600 against a Saskatchewan contractor.
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• Saskatoon business fined $8500 after worker burned
  Posted Nov 10, 2011 Jackson Sandblasting and Painting will have to pay a fine of just over $8,500 for failing to provide a safe work environment.
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• Tugboat capsizes in Lake St. Martin channel
  Posted Nov 9, 2011 No one was hurt when a tugboat capsized in the Lake St. Martin channel last Wednesday, one day after the emergency channel went into operation.
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• RCMP spokeswoman claims harassment by superiors
  Posted Nov 9, 2011 A high-profile member of the RCMP in British Columbia is alleging that years of sexual harassment from senior officers has left her suffering from post-traumatic stress.
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• Safety violations mean fines for construction firms
  Posted Nov 9, 2011 A fatal accident on a work site near Southey almost four years ago has resulted in a fine of $15,600 against a Saskatchewan contractor.
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• Man dies in workplace accident near Fort McMurray
  Posted Nov 9, 2011 A worker was removing excess gravel from a conveyor when his arm was caught in the machine and he was pulled into the rollers, suffering fatal injuries.
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• Alberta company fined more than $300,000 in death of worker
  Posted Nov 9, 2011 CVA Canada Inc. was fined more than $300,000 for the death of worker Robert Jonathan Makortoff, 35, in August 2005.
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• Safety board determines that abnormal repairs caused 2010 train derailment
  Posted Nov 9, 2011 Abnormal repairs to a tank car in 2006 is determined the cause of a train derailment near Avondale in June of 2010.
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• Workplace accident in Estevan
  Posted Nov 9, 2011 A metal framed structure that was under construction collapsed. Four male workers, in two separate, Genie Man-Lift bucket machines, were hurled to the ground.
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• Business Owner Fined $17,000 For Non-Compliance
  Posted Nov 9, 2011 Waldemar Kozuchowski, sole proprietor of Infinity Marble of Canada, a synthetic marble and granite manufacturing company, was fined $17,000 for failing to comply with inspectors' orders.
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• Safety violations mean fines for construction firms
  Posted Nov. 8, 2011. A fatal accident on a work site near Southey almost four years ago has resulted in a fine of $15,600 against a Saskatchewan contractor.
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• Man pulled from rubble in Vaughan construction accident
  Posted Nov 7, 2011 The man was trapped under rubble from the retaining wall until emergency crews pulled him out. He was sent to Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and a possible arm fracture.
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• Family of deceased teenager was suspicious of working conditions
  Posted Nov 7, 2011 Less than two weeks before he was crushed by a tractor trailer at the rail yard near Fort Saskatchewan, Cody Demary reportedly approached his father with concerns about the company's safety training for new workers.
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• ’Peg man killed in odd Sask. cultivator crash
  Posted Nov 4, 2011 A Winnipeg man is dead after a bizarre crash between a car and farm machinery on a rural road in eastern Saskatchewan.
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• Bedbugs found at MTS building
  Posted Nov 3, 2011 MTS staff in the building at 365 Osborne St. found several bedbugs and the company immediately notified its corporate health and safety department and kicked a pest control response into action.
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• Helicopter crash kills 3 near Kapuskasing
  Posted Nov 3, 2011 Three people have died in a helicopter crash in a remote area of northern Ontario south of Kapuskasing.
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• Teen killed in accident at Shell Scotford Refinery
  Posted Nov 3, 2011 An 18-year-old man was killed at the Shell Scotford Refinery as he was working in a supply yard when he was hit and run over by a tractor trailer unit.
  
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• Via train hits reverse to avoid collision with freight train
  Posted Nov 2, 2011 Two Via Rail engineers have been suspended without pay after the train they were operating Saturday did a fast reverse to avoid a collision with an oncoming freight train. The incident happened the CN Rail mainline, about 60 kilometres west of Dauphin.
  
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• Worker dies in Terrace Bay explosion
  Posted Nov 2, 2011 A worker is dead after a late-afternoon explosion at the Terrace Bay Pulp mill. Two other people were taken to hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
  
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• Robbery suspect caught after accidently shooting himself
  Posted Nov 1, 2011 A convenience store in the 800 block of Ellice Avenue was robbed by a man with a firearm who demanded cash and cigarettes from the store clerks.
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• Markham firefighter dies from work-related illness
  Posted Nov 1, 2011 Larry Pilkey died at his home with family at his side after a battle with brain cancer, a recognized illness under the Workers Safety Insurance Board Presumptive Legislation Act for firefighters.
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• Firm cleared in worker's death
  Posted Oct 31, 2011 There was no celebration for the management of XI Technologies after the small Calgary tech company was acquitted of two charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act related to the accidental death of a worker at a Stampede party four years ago.
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• Soldier from CFB Trenton dies during rescue mission
  Posted Oct 28, 2011 A soldier who was involved in the rescue of two people stranded on a boat in Nunavut has died.
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• Eight injured in Vancouver plane crash
  Posted Oct 28, 2011 Motorists along a major traffic artery watched in horror as a small aircraft nose-dived to the ground, bursting into flames as it crashed next to an intersection.
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• Supervisor fined in connection with fatal diving operation
  Posted Oct 28, 2011 A supervisor employed with ODS marine was fined $8,000 for his part in a fatal diving operation on the Trent Severn Waterway, just north of Trenton in October, 2009
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• Man stable after piece of lumber pierces his neck
  Posted Oct 28, 2011 A 55-year-old man was recovering at a Calgary hospital after a piece of lumber pierced the man's neck while he was working at the Triple M Housing plant.
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• Two dead in Ottawa mall shooting
  Posted Oct 27, 2011 Two men in their 30s are dead following a shooting inside Gloucester center Mall in east Ottawa.
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• Man dies in work site accident
  Posted Oct 27, 2011 A 57-year-old man, who was working alone, died when some piping fell on him at a business on Edson Street, police in Saskatoon say.
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• TTC approves random drug testing
  Posted Oct 26, 2011 About half the TTC’s workforce — from drivers and supervisors to track-level maintenance workers — will soon be subject to random drug and alcohol testing.
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• Man dead after tractor-trailer accident
  Posted Oct 25, 2011 A truck driver is dead and his passenger was seriously injured after an accident involving a tractor-trailer and a car east of Clarenville, NL.
  
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• Cams pose safety risk: prosecutors
  Posted Oct 25, 2011 Cameras in the courtroom aren’t just a distraction, they are a safety threat, say many Crown attorneys. Prosecutors say they don’t want their faces televised or otherwise broadcast for all to see, including cohorts and friends of the criminals they put in jail.
  
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• Fatal farm accident in Manitoba
  Posted Oct 24, 2011 A 75-year-old man was operating a tractor near the Little Saskatchewan River when the tractor rolled into the river and became submerged. The man was transported to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
  
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• St. Vital store robbed
  Posted Oct 24, 2011 A St. Vital convenience store was robbed of cigarettes by two suspects, one armed with a knife and one with bear spray.
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• After emergency landing, plane falls onto mechanic
  Posted Oct 24, 2011 An aircraft made a safe wheels-up landing at a northwest Saskatchewan airport, but a mechanic who worked on the plane afterward was trapped underneath the plane while he was working on the landing gear.
  
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• Company Fined $55,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted Oct 21, 2011 SMG Canada Ulc., carrying on business in partnership with Arcturus SMG Canada, a company that manages public facilities, was fined $55,000 after a worker was injured while unpacking glass panels.
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• KD Farm Services Fined $80,000 After Worker Killed
  Posted Oct 21, 2011 KD Farm Services, was fined $80,000 after an incident where a worker was found crushed to death under a trailer at a chicken farm in Ontario.
  
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• Fire at Point Douglas paper mill still blazing
  Posted Oct 20, 2011 Roughly 100 firefighters have been out overnight battling a blaze which started in a warehouse and has caused $1.5 million in damages.
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• Manitoba worker dies nearly 2 weeks after work mishap at Vale mine
  Posted Oct 22, 2011 A miner who was injured on the job at a Manitoba mine earlier this month has died.
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• Company and Supervisor Fined $130,000 Total After Worker Killed
  Posted Oct 20, 2011 New Forest Paper Mills was fined following the death of a worker and a supervisor was fined $5,000 in relation to the same incident.
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• Ottawa engineering firm fined for worker’s injury
  Posted Oct 20, 2011 Davis Engineering Limited was fined $60,000 after a worker was injured during a test of a helicopter exhaust system on an outdoor platform.
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• Thornlea man killed in Alberta industrial accident
  Posted Oct 20, 2011 A 28-year-old worker was killed in an industrial accident when an I-beam fell and struck the man.
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• Englee company fined $6,000 for breaching health and safety regulations
  Posted Oct 18, 2011 Sealand Enterprises Limited has been fined $6,000 after the company failed to provide sufficient ventilation in its facility, the wearing of appropriate respiratory equipment, and the installation of effective washing facilities.
  
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• Man charged after alleged attack on Halifax bus driver
  Posted Oct 18, 2011 A 41-year-old man is facing assault charges after an alleged attack on a Metro Transit bus driver in downtown Halifax.
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• Bus driver in fatal T.O. crash faces criminal charges
  Posted Oct 13, 2011 William Ainsworth, a city bus driver at the wheel in a crash that killed one passenger and injured 13 others is now facing criminal charges of criminal negligence causing death and possession of cannabis.
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• Ottawa police called in after gunman shows up at Air Canada executive's home
  Posted Oct 13, 2011 Ottawa police are looking for a man who showed up at an Air Canada executive's home last night with what appeared to be a handgun.
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• ER doctors want mandatory CPR training in high school, say it could help save lives
  Posted Oct 13, 2011 Emergency medicine doctors are calling for a national strategy to help boost the survival rate of Canadians who suffer a cardiac arrest outside hospital, including mandatory CPR training for all high school students.
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• Technician found dead at bottom of elevator shaft at Ottawa construction site
  Posted Oct 13, 2011 An elevator technician who was pronounced dead after he was found at the bottom of a nine-storey elevator shaft is Ross Angus, a local hockey gear entrepreneur, father of two children and stepfather to another.
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• Workers were trapped in their machines in deadly accident at TTC site
  Posted Oct 12, 2011 A construction worker was crushed to death and five others injured when a rig toppled onto two smaller machines at York University.
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• Suspect caught on tape punching 60 year old clerk
  Posted Oct 11, 2011 A suspect was caught on tape while he punched a 60 year old female clerk at a Winnipeg convenience store.
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• Fight delays flight at Trudeau airport
  Posted Oct 11, 2011 A flight attendant injured her arm while attempting to separate two men who were fighting after a set of headphones was broken prior to a flight.
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• Charges laid after bright light interferes with police chopper
  Posted Oct 11, 2011 A Winnipeg man is under arrest after shining a glaring light at the Winnipeg Police Service helicopter.
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• At least 16 zombie actors hurt in fall on set of 'Resident Evil: Retribution'
  Posted Oct 11, 2011 At least 16 actors dressed as zombies were injured on the set of a horror movie Tuesday when they fell off a moving platform at a studio in Toronto.
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• Man killed in accident
  Posted Oct 11, 2011 A man is dead following an accident yesterday on a construction site at an asphalt plant.
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• Death of seismic worker near Lethbridge investigated
  Posted Oct 11, 2011 Provincial authorities are investigating the death of a worker who was killed when the 35-year-old man was operating a drilling unit when it flipped over.
  
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• 2 still in hospital after Regina refinery explosion
  Posted Oct 11, 2011 Two people remain in hospital following an explosion and fire at Consumers Co-operative Refineries after a blast and subsequent fire injured a total of 13 people and caused 1,400 to be evacuated from the facility.
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• NB: WorkSafeNB investigating fatal fall at Atholville mill
  Posted Oct 11, 2011 An investigation is underway into a workplace accident that killed Maurice Roussell and left two other people injured at a pulp mill in northern New Brunswick.
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• Company fined $3,500 in White Rock electrocution death
  Posted Oct 11, 2011 L.S. Gutter Tech Ltd, whose worker was electrocuted on the roof of a White Rock home 2½ years ago has been fined more than $3,500 in connection with the fatality.
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• B.C. logger dies in accident three months after winning custody battle
  Posted Oct 11, 2011 Danny Dimm was killed instantly while clearing trees on private land when part of a tree toppled down on a piece of equipment, pinning him underneath.
  
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• Stefcon Construction Inc. Fined $50,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted Oct 11, 2011 Stefcon Construction Inc., was fined $50,000 after a worker tripped on debris that was left on the scaffold's second level. The worker fell over three meters to the ground below and suffered a back injury.
  
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• Massive power outage shuts down MacGregor
  Posted Oct 5, 2011 The MacGregor area has suffered a massive power outage after a tractor hauling equipment took down overhead powerlines.
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• N.W.T. plane crash kills 2
  Posted Oct 5, 2011 Yellowknife-based Air Tindi has not released any names, but did confirm there were four people on the Cessna 208B aircraft, including the pilot. The crash happened near the fly-in community of Lutselk'e, N.W.T.
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• Young hockey player's legacy lives on in new rink
  Posted Oct 5, 2011 Loved ones of a young man killed in a work place accident last year officially opened a new hockey rink in his hometown to honour his memory.
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• Company pleads not guilty in worker's death
  Posted Oct 4, 2011 Concord Paving Limited was charged with six violations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations after a flagperson was killed on the Holyrood Access Road.
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• 3 companies plead guilty to Burnaby oil spill
  Posted Oct 4, 2011 The three companies responsible for a 2007 oil spill in a residential area in Burnaby, B.C., entered guilty pleas in Vancouver,
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• RCMP officer sustained non life-threatening injuries after shots fired at police cruiser
  Posted Oct 4, 2011 Police came upon a suspicious vehicle and as they began to pursue it north along the Alaska Highway, one or more shots were fired in their direction. At least one bullet struck the RCMP vehicle
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• Stefcon Construction Inc. Fined $50,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted Oct 4, 2011 Stefcon Construction Inc., was fined $50,000 after a worker was dismantling a scaffold when the worker tripped on debris that was left on the scaffold's second level. The worker fell over three meters to the ground below and suffered a back injury.
  
  
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• Crash kills pair in tow truck
  Posted Oct 3, 2011 Two persons were killed when a tow truck went out of control while travelling east on Dugald Road near Plessis Road.The truck swerved, jumped the median and hit a tree before it caught fire.
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• AirCan barring pilots from Winnipeg's cesspool
  Posted Oct 3, 2011 Air Canada has issued a bulletin to its flight crews saying staff will no longer be staying at a downtown Winnipeg hotel due to increasing concerns over violent crime in the area.
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• Truck driver dies after Edmonton heavy equipment accident
  Posted Oct 3, 2011 A 48-year-old man was killed
  when he was pinned against a pickup truck by a front-end loader that was reversing.
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• Alberta worker killed being pinned between machinery south of Calgary
  Posted Oct 3, 2011 A 46-year-old man was killed when he was operating a small backhoe attached to a Bobcat excavator when the machine started to slide into the trench he was digging.
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• Man injured in bank robbery
  Posted Sep 30, 2011 There was robbery at the CIBC in the 3400-block of Roblin Boulevard in Winnipeg and a man who is not the suspect sustained a serious injury to the upper body.
  
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• Nurse threatened by man demanding drugs
  Posted Sep 30, 2011 A man demanding drugs allegedly threatened a Ste. Rose du Lac Hospital nurse with a weapon
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• Brinkman and Associates Reforestation fined in connection to drowning deaths
  Posted Sep 28, 2011 WorkSafe BC has fined Brinkman and Associates Reforestation $2,593.85 in connection with the drowning death of two of it workers.
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• O.D.S. Marine Fined $100,000 After Worker Killed
  Posted Sep 28, 2011 O.D.S. Marine, an Ottawa company specializing in marine construction and engineering and commercial diving, was fined $100,000 after a worker was killed.
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• Cop with drug problem wants job back or money
  Posted Sep 27, 2011 A former Brantford, Ont., cop who was caught on police video smoking crack cocaine and snorting Oxycontin in his cruiser is fighting to get his job back or secure a financial settlement from the service.
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• Passersby come to the aid of man on fire
  Posted Sep 27, 2011 A 54-year-old Unionvale man is in critical condition in the burn unit of the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Halifax after suffering severe burns in a workplace accident.
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• Wind-warning system to be used at highrise Calgary work sites
  Posted Sep 27, 2011 A wind warning system designed to predict Calgary's blustery storms is set to become mandatory at new highrise work sites in some of the city's high volume areas.
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• Man killed in silo collapse
  Posted Sep 26, 2011 A man is dead and a youth injured after a silo collapsed on a farm west of Joliette.
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• Defence suggests $100,000 fine in Langley mushroom tragedy
  Posted Sep 26, 2011 The defence has proposed punishment by installment payment for the people responsible for the Langley mushroom tragedy that killed three men and permanently injured two.
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• Police ask city for land to solve explosives issue
  Posted Sep 23, 2011 Wanted by Winnipeg Police Service: A secure spot for bombs and explosives.
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• Airline suspends flights, deals with aftermath of fatal Yellowknife plane crash
  Posted Sep 23, 2011 Arctic Sunwest Charters has suspended flights until Monday as the airline deals with the aftermath of a plane crash in Yellowknife that killed two pilots and injured seven passengers.
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• No warning signal heard before Shawnigan Lake gravel-pit blast
  Posted Sep 23, 2011 The three workers who were injured in an explosion at Mid-Island Aggregates north of Victoria were expecting the debris to fly high in the air and fall harmlessly to earth, as they watched from a “safe zone” about 200 metres away.
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• TTC bus crashes into hydro pole
  Posted Sep 23, 2011 No serious injuries have been reported after a TTC bus struck a hydro pole near Thorncliffe Park Drive and Overlea Boulevard.
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• HIV-positive man jailed for spitting at cop
  Posted Sep 21, 2011 AN HIV-positive Winnipeg man will spend another year in jail for hitting a police officer in the face with his bloody saliva.
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• Grader operator run over by grader
  Posted Sep 21, 2011 A bizarre accident has claimed the life of a grader operator near Fairview Alberta.
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• Auto shop sentenced for health and safety violations
  Posted Sep 21, 2011 A St. John's auto repair shop has been handed a hefty fine for an accident that left an employee with a broken back and possibly unable to work again.
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• REGINA-AREA CONSTRUCTION FIRM FINED FOR SAFETY VIOLATIONS
  Posted Sep 21, 2011 Fred Thue Construction Ltd. has been convicted of four charges and fined a total of $3,020 in Regina Provincial Court.
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• Glaslyn contractor pleads guilty to safety violation
  Posted Sep 21, 2011 L & M Wood Products of Glaslyn, Saskatchewan has pleaded guilty to a charge after a worker was seriously injured.
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• City and Company Charged
  Posted Sep 21, 2011 Weir's Construction and the City of Mount Pearl have been charged with violations in relation to an incident where a flagperson was struck by a car during a paving project.
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• Woman loses part of arm in Vancouver Island blast
  Posted Sep 21, 2011 A woman is in critical condition after her arm was severed in industrial blast at a gravel pit in Shawnigan Lake on Vancouver Island.
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• Dump-truck driver killed on the job
  Posted Sep 20, 2011 A 53-year-old dump-truck driver from the RM of Ste. Anne was killed on the job. The lone male operator of a commercial dump truck was outside the vehicle, dumping a load of gravel, when the truck rolled forward, running over him.
  
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• Cruiser hit in traffic stop gone awry
  Posted Sep 19, 2011 A Winnipeg police officer was nearly hit when a suspect driver allegedly reversed quickly and collided with the cruiser, where a second officer was sitting.
  
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• No safety plan at mushroom farm
  Posted Sep 19, 2011 The owners of a Langley mushroom farm where three men were killed by poison gas in 2008 were unaware of occupational health and safety laws but advised workers to be careful on the job
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• Safety plans best stored in visible locations, boxes
  Posted Sep 19, 2011 North Bay Fire and Emergency Services is promoting the use of special boxes so firefighters can find mandatory fire safety plans more easily.
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• Auto shop sentenced for health and safety violations
  Posted Sep 19, 2011 ERL Enterprises Ltd. has been sentenced following an incident involving a worker who was pinned beneath a vehicle that was being repaired. The worker suffered serious injuries to his back and ribs.
  
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• Company and Director Fined $6,000 Total After Non-Compliance
  Posted Sep 19, 2011 All Seasons Windows and Doors, was fined $3,500 for a violation of the Employment Standards Act after failing to comply with an officer's orders. The director of the company, Peter Mitnik, was also fined $2,500.
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• Flaws found in procedures at workplace accident
  Posted Sep 16, 2011 Injured student worker had little training or supervision and no radio access, Ministry of Labour reports
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• Ministry investigating after man falls off ladder at Perimeter Institute
  Posted Sep 16, 2011 An investigation is underway after a 56-year-old man fell off a ladder while doing work at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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• Companies Fined $125,000 Total After Worker Injured
  Posted Sep 14, 2011 Cimco Refrigeration, was fined $95,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured. Sobeys Capital Inc, a grocery distribution centre, was fined $30,000 in relation to the same incident.
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• Suspect arrested after city bus driver punched
  Posted Sep 14, 2011 Cellphone video showing a passenger sucker-punching a city bus driver has led to the arrest of an Edmonton man, now charged with assault.
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• Clerk captures suspect in robbery spree
  Posted Sep 14, 2011 An inner-city convenience store clerk is credited with capturing a man accused of holding up six different Winnipeg businesses this week.
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• Montreal daycare firebombed for second time in a month
  Posted Sep 14, 2011 Montreal police are looking for suspects after a daycare centre in the city's east end was firebombed for the second time this month.
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• Winkler boy dies in farm accident
  Posted Sep 12, 2011 A seven-year-old boy was run over by a combine after he he had been riding on the farm equipment with family members.
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• Man dead after being struck by power pole in Crowsnest Pass
  Posted Sep 12, 2011 A man in his 20s is dead after he was struck by a power pole while setting up a temporary power line in Crowsnest Pass.
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• Robbery suspect linked to drunken crashes
  Posted Sep 12, 2011 Police were called to a convenience store near Main Street and Bannerman Avenue after a lone male demanded cash from the store clerk.
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• Worker dies at Rosetown grain elevator
  Posted Sep 12, 2011 A Viterra worker is dead following an incident when he became trapped in grain at an elevator in Rosetown, Sask.
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• Sask. fall harvest safety
  Posted Sep 12, 2011 As Saskatchewan enters the harvest season, farmers are asked to take extra precautions as the risk of injury is higher during this time.
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• Workplace accident kills man near Fort McMurray
  Posted Sep 12, 2011 A 34-year-old man is dead after being electrocuted while installing electrical cable near Fort McMurray.
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• Leaders speak out about Wi-Fi safety in schools
  Posted Sep 9, 2011 The debate over the safety of wireless Internet reached the campaign trail after an Ontario private school said on Thursday it was switching off its connections to avoid possible health concerns.
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• Court date set in firefighter's death
  Posted Sep 9, 2011 A two-week trial has been scheduled for next year to deal with charges laid against the Village of Point Edward, its fire chief and a training officer in connection with the 2010 death of a volunteer firefighter.
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• Gold Mining Company Fined $100,000 After Workers Injured
  Posted Sep 9, 2011 Kirkland Lake Gold Inc, was fined $100,000 for violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act after two workers were injured.
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• Tiredness leaves shift workers struggling with health issues
  Posted Sep, 9, 2011 Get a good night's sleep and, research shows, you'll be healthier, happier and sharper. But Calgary Police Sgt. Blake Hiebert can't get a good night's sleep.
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• Kitchener man injured after falling through display window
  Posted Sep 9, 2011 Investigators are lloking into circumstances after a man received numerous non-life threatening cuts to his body after a false ceiling fell on him, driving him through the building's glass, front window.
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• Striking Seneca College support worker hit by car
  Posted Sep 9, 2011 A striking college support worker was sent to hospital on Wednesday after being hit by a car outside of Seneca College's Markham campus.
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• Terrorized night staff need protection
  Posted Sep 9, 2011 Workers need protection in business that has been robbed 6 times in the past 2 years.
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• Man dies after two-car collision; driver faces charges
  Posted Sep 8, 2011 A man has died after being hit by a teenager who was allegedly texting on his cell phone. Police say the driver indicated he swerved into the wrong lane to avoid colliding with other eastbound vehicles ahead that had stopped for construction.
  
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• Diesel truck burns on Trans-Canada Highway
  Posted Sep 8, 2011 The transcanada highway was closed for several hours after a double tanker truck started on fire near the Manitoba-Saskatchewan boundary. The driver pulled onto the highway’s shoulder and escaped before the flames engulfed the truck and trailer.
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• Fire extinguisher kills driver
  Posted Sep 8, 2011 OPP reports that it was a fire extinguisher that fell off a garbage truck and bounced sevral times before smashing through the windshield of a SUV that killed the driver on the QEW.
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• Lawsuit in Toronto transit crash death
  Posted Sep 8, 2011 The family of a woman killed in a Toronto crash is launching a lawsuit against the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), the TTC driver, and the flatbed truck driver.
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• Wind farm fined in carbon monoxide deaths
  Posted Sep 8, 2011 Rotor Mechanical Services Ltd was found responsible in the deaths of two workers and was fined a total of $95,000 after pleading guilty to three counts under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
  
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• Metal beam crashes on Montreal cab
  Posted Sep 8, 2011 Two Montreal taxi passengers had a close call when a seven metere metal construction beam struck the car they were in, smashing the rear window.
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• Company Fined $50,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted Sep 8, 2011 Hardrock Forming Co. was found guilty and fined $50,000 after being convicted of a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
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• Worker impaled after tripping
  Posted Sep 8, 2011 A 55-year-old man tripped and was impaled by a piece of rebar as hewas preparing concrete form work and installing rebar.
  
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• TTC driver in fatal crash had drugs, police say
  Posted Sep 5, 2011 Toronto police now say the driver of the bus that collided with a truck on Tuesday, killing a passenger on the bus, was in possession of illegal drugs.
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• Inspector never visited fatal mine zone
  Posted Aug 31, 2011 A provincial ministry mining inspector admitted to a coroner's inquest he had never examined the flawed underground loading pocket at a Madoc mine until after a 2008 fatal incident.
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• Investigators probe two work-related injuries
  Posted Aug 31, 2011 The Ontario Ministry of Labour is investigating two separate incidents in south Ottawa where workers were injured on the job.
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• Calgary man dies of electrocution on jobsite
  Posted Aug 31, 2011 Authorities are investigating the death of an Enmax employee electrocuted this afternoon while working on power lines in southwest Calgary.
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• Man charged in workplace slayings
  Posted Aug 31, 2011 Police were called to James Elliott Underground Construction Inc. to investigate what appeared to be a double homicide at this workplace.
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• Safety must be a year-round focus on the farm
  Posted Aug 31, 2011 Although it has been a wetter-than-usual summer, the threat of farm fires is very real, says Kenda Lubeck, farm safety co-ordinator with Alberta Agriculture in Grande Prairie.
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• Man Injured in On-the-Job Fall
  Posted Aug 31, 2011 A man was hurt with undetermined injuries while working on the side of a truck at Clarke's Transport.
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• SummerFest midway accident prompts investigation
  Posted Aug 31, 2011 The Technical Standards and Safety Authority has launched an investigation after an accident Aug. 27 at the midway set up in a parking lot across from Bell Park as part of SummerFest.
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• Safety concerns behind decision to cancel 24-hour ambulance shifts
  Posted Aug 31, 2011 New Brunswick's provincial ambulance service is phasing out nearly all of its 24-hour shifts as part of an effort to provide a safer workplace for patients and paramedics.
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• Man, 70, killed in tractor accident
  Posted Aug 29, 2011 A 70-year-old man was killed when he was run over by a tractor on a farm in western Manitoba
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• Charges stayed in mill death
  Posted Aug 29, 2011 It's been almost seven years since sawmill worker Lyle Hewer died in a workplace accident at Weyerhaeuser's now-closed New Westminster sawmill.
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• Woman bucked from horse later dies
  Posted Aug 26, 2011 Provincial authorities are investigating the death of a woman who was thrown from a horse while working at a group home in central Alberta.
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• Rescued after 12 hours under trailer
  Posted Aug 26, 2011 Emergency crews used inflatable airbags Thursday morning to rescue an 80-year-old man trapped for more than 12 hours under a trailer in a Strathcona County field.
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• 'Let me live or let me die': Alberta farmer
  Posted Aug 26, 2011 Calahoo-area farmer Ray Como spent nearly a day in a cold, lonely engine compartment at harvest, just when the nights had started to get cold. That he survived was nothing short of a miracle.
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• Westeel celebrates 1 million hours without a time loss injury
  Posted Aug 26, 2011 On May 20, 2011, the WCB's Curtis Weber helped Westeel in Saskatoon celebrate 1 million hours without a time loss injury.
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• Fatality inquiry ordered into death of Camrose caregiver
  Posted Aug 25, 2011 Alberta's justice minister has ordered a fatality inquiry into the case of a Camrose caregiver allegedly strangled by a mentally ill client.
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• Man charged after car drags officer 23 metres
  Posted Aug 25, 2011 A Toronto police constable with four years of service is lucky to be alive as he was dragged almost 23 metres after a driver reversed his car to try to escape a traffic stop
  
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• Farmer's field yields rusty grenade
  Posted Aug 24, 2011 A Portage la Prairie-area farmer was tilling his soil Tuesday when his machine whacked an old, rusty hand grenade.
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• Safety concerns raised after man hit by falling brick near Pantages demolition site
  Posted Aug 24, 2011 Michael Whelan, a resident of a single-room occupancy hotel next to the Pantages Theatre site, said he was injured when a brick shattered on the sidewalk in front of him, and a piece of brick hit him in the side of the head.
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• Man injured after fall from a ladder
  Posted Aug 22, 2011 A 25-year-old man was taken to hospital after falling from a ladder while working on the roof of a building in Gatineau Tuesday morning.
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• 27-year-old University of Alberta researcher, died Thursday in an ATV accident in an isolated area in northwestern Alberta.
  Posted Aug 24, 2011 Suzanne Elizabeth Abele, 27, died after she drove into a three-metre-deep sinkhole on a remote forestry road in an area about 250 kilometres north of the city of Grande Prairie.
  
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• Worker Death at Gordon Campbell's Home Fits Grim Larger Pattern
  Posted Aug 24, 2011 "No fall protection plan was in place for the work, and the employer had not considered one," the report said.
  
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• Western Biodiesel fined $160,000
  Posted Aug 24, 2011 Western Biodiesel was assessed a $160,000 in fine relating to two spills at their facility in 2008. A former operations manager Jason Freeman also pleaded guilty to two charges.
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• Amputated man fines employer
  Posted Aug 19, 2011 The Waterloo Textiles employee is seeking $75,000 stating the company failed to properly protect its employees from the moving parts of the machine used to create yarn.
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• Stony Mountain still on lockdown
  Posted Aug 18, 2011 The medium-security facility north of Winnipeg was locked down for a cell-to-cell search for weapons, drugs or other contraband.
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• Waterloo Textiles Ltd. Fined $75,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted Aug 18, 2011 Waterloo Textiles Ltd., a Cambridge yarn manufacturer, was fined $75,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.
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• Saskatoon Construction firm fined
  Posted Aug 18, 2011 Allan Construction Co. Ltd. was fined $4,300 to one count of failing to ensure workers in a trench are protected for cave-ins or sliding material by means of cut back or shoring.
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• Western Grocers worker pinned by truck, killed on loading docks
  Posted Aug 18, 2011 A man was killed Thursday morning as he was struck by a semi truck by the loading dock at Western Grocers.
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• Attack on nurse prompts security changes
  Posted Aug 17, 2011 The Hamiota District Health Centre will be the first facility in Manitoba to provide nurses and health care workers with personal panic alarms.
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• Man hurt in wall collapse escaped worse injury: official
  Posted Aug 17, 2011 A worker at a residential construction site in southwest Calgary is lucky he wasn't more seriously hurt when a retaining wall collapsed
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• Calgary aircraft de-icing staff had safety training, court told
  Posted Aug 17, 2011 Staff go through a rigorous training program - both classroom and practical - before they are qualified to de-ice an aircraft, says Servisair's Calgary-based training supervisor.
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• Aircraft de-icers 'rushed' without safety harnesses
  Posted Aug 17, 2011 A high-ranking official with Servisair says he was astounded that neither of two aircraft de-icers was wearing his safety harness and lanyard when one of them fell to his death at Calgary International Airport on Dec. 21, 2009.
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• Airplane de-icer warned before fatal fall, court told
  Posted Aug 17, 2011 Murgappa Naiker was previously reprimanded for not wearing his safety harness and attached lanyard while de-icing an aircraft, in the year prior to his death.
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• Airport worker had no safety harness when he fell to his death
  Posted Aug 17, 2011 A veteran airport worker who fell to his death from the bucket of a cherry picker while de-icing a jet at Calgary International Airport was not wearing a safety harness with lanyard
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• Bus barns unsafe for hybrids: driver
  Posted Aug 17, 2011 A Saskatoon Transit driver who caused a major gas leak earlier this month says the city’s bus barns are a catastrophe waiting to happen.
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• Artillery shell found at construction site
  Posted Aug 17, 2011 CBCWorkers have uncovered a live artillery shell on a West Vancouver residential construction site.
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• Company pleads guilty in Yukon mine death
  Posted Aug 17, 2011 Procon Mining and Tunnelling Ltd. pleaded guilty in court on Tuesday to two of eight occupational safety charges it faced in connection with the death of Paul Wentzell, 20, at Yukon Zinc Corp.'s Wolverine mine in southeastern Yukon.
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• New safety plan will help reduce risks to farmers
  Posted Aug 15, 2011 With the fall harvest approaching, this is a busy season for producers and a time when they also need to ensure everyone is safe when working on the farm.
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• Assiniboia hotel robbed
  Posted Aug 15, 2011 An Assiniboia motel was targeted by a lone male thief Saturday evening. ?The suspect, entered the lobby of the Boulevard Motel about 9:30 p.m. and demanded cash from a 53-year-old female employee.
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• T.O. cop injured in hit-and-run
  Posted Aug 15, 2011 City police are looking for two suspects after a plainclothes officer was the victim of a hit and run outside of a motel early Thursday.
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• Province to investigate beryllium spill at Burlington Street lab
  Posted Aug 15, 2011 The Ontario Ministry of Labour is investigating whether a recent beryllium spill at a local industrial research laboratory was handled properly.
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• Pregnancy discrimination concerns human rights agency
  Posted Aug 15, 2011 The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission says it is concerned that one in ten workplace complaints of discrimination are related to pregnancy.
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• Three Sask. firms fined for workplace violations
  Posted Aug 11, 2011 Saskatchewan contractors have been fined by Labour Relations and Workplace Safety in connection with rules forcing firms to help protect workers from falls.
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• Man injured while operating backhoe in Kanata
  Posted Aug 11, 2011 Ontario's Ministry of Labour is investigating after a man was injured when he lost control of the backhoe he was operating, pinning him inside.
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• Winnipeg man with HIV not guilty of aggravated assault for spitting on police
  Posted Aug 10, 2011 A judge has ruled an HIV-positive Winnipeg man did not put a police officer at significant risk of harm by spitting bloody saliva in his face.
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• Man charged with threatening Toronto Mayor Rob Ford
  Posted Aug 10, 2011 A second man has been charged with threatening the life of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.He is the second person charged with making death threats against the controversial mayor.
  
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• Alberta company penalized extra $10,000 for not paying safety fine
  Posted Aug 10, 2011 In a legal precedent, an Alberta company has been hit with a penalty for failing to pay a provincial workplace safety fine stemming from serious forklift injuries suffered by a worker in 2003.
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• 'The system failed those workers': forest watchdog
  Posted Aug 10, 2011 The system failed a group of immigrant tree-planters who say they were treated like slaves at a camp near Golden, B.C. last year, according to a critical report from the province's forest safety watchdog.
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• Traffic controller killed by driver on Abitibi work site
  Posted Aug 9, 2011 A 35-year-old traffic controller was hit by a vehicle on a road construction site Monday around noon near Launay, in the Abitibi region.
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• Man arrested for pair of knifepoint holdups
  Posted Aug 9, 2011 A 40-year-old man has been arrested after a knife-wielding robber held up two Winnipeg convenience stores.
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• Firetruck t-bones car
  Posted Aug 9, 2011 A East Selkirk fire truck going east on Highway 212 towards a car fire ran into a Chevrolet Impala as it tried to cross Highway 59 just before 6 p.m. Monday.
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• Teens charged after laser pointed at police chopper
  Posted Aug 9, 2011 Five more Oshawa, Ont., teens face charges for allegedly zapping a Durham police helicopter with a laser pointer last month, sending one crew member to hospital.
  
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• Two men crushed after mobile home collapses
  Posted Aug 8, 2011 Two men were crushed by a mobile home Friday afternoon in Saint-Amable, about 30 km east of Montreal, after they used a car jack to lift the structure to do construction work.
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• Man dies in Redcliff construction site fall
  Posted Aug 8, 2011 RCMP and Medicine Hat emergency services were called to a construction site in the town of Redcliff, where a man fell 60 feetto his death.
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• Man dies in Redcliff, AB construction site fall
  A worker tumbled to his death at a construction site in Southern Alberta, say RCMP.
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• Auto repair shop charged with safety violations
  Posted Aug 5, 2011 An auto repair shop in St. John’s has been charged with three violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act following a September 2010 incident in which an employee was pinned beneath a vehicle being repaired.
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• Group-home attacker gets year in jail
  Posted Aug 5, 2011 A 16-year-old Edmonton youth has been sentenced to a year in jail for beating a group-home worker during a March break-in.
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• Winnipeg Bus driver assaulted by exiting rider
  Posted Aug 4, 2011 A male was disembarking at Main Street and Pioneer Avenue Tuesday around 9:30 p.m. when he struck the driver in the upper body.
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• Dozens sent to hospital after Quebec camp accident; no life-threatening injuries
  Posted Aug 4, 2011 A pastoral joyride turned into a traumatic scene at a Christian children's camp Wednesday, when a trailer being pulled by a farm tractor flipped over and dozens of people were sent to hospital.
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• Labrador health officials confirm case of Hepatitis A in Tim Hortons worker
  Posted Aug 4, 2011 Officials are advising residents who consumed food or beverages at the Tim Hortons between July 3 to 6, and who have symptoms of hepatitis A, to contact their family doctor.
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• Charges laid in fatal Alberta stage collapse
  Posted Aug 4, 2011 Summertime is supposed to be a carefree season of lawn chairs and outdoor entertainment, but recent stage collapses – and now charges in connection with the death of one Alberta concert-goer – has some festival organizers rethinking their shows.
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• Cheap Trick axes PNE show after concerns about stage
  Posted Aug 4, 2011 Veteran U.S. rock band Cheap Trick has cancelled its Sept. 1 show at the Pacific National Exhibition after learning the venue's stage was made by the same manufacturers of the structure that collapsed during the group's set in Ottawa last month
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• Worker Dies at Suncor Site in Alberta
  Posted Aug 1, 2011 An oilsands worker is dead after a workplace accident north of Fort McMurray, Alta.
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• Newfoundland company fined after workers exposed to asbestos dust
  Posted July 29, 2011 A Newfoundland company must pay $13,000 in penalties after pleading guilty to not doing enough to reduce the exposure of employees and the local environment to asbestos dust.
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• Winnipeg police investigate 3 robberies of big box stores
  Posted July 28, 2011 Police are investigating a string of robberies that occurred at three large businesses Tuesday evening.
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• Knotek Brothers Inc. Fined $40,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted July 28, 2011 Brothers Inc., operator of a greenhouse in Chatham, was fined $40,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.
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• Kone Inc. Fined $55,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted July 28, 2011 Kone Inc., an international corporation that installs and maintains elevators and escalators, was fined $55,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.
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• RCMP investigate fatal workplace accident
  Posted July 27, 2011 RCMP were called to a construction site in the Rural Municipality of Thompson, where a 49-year-old man had lost his footing and fallen from the rafters at the site.
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• Blue Bombers defensive line coach Richard Harris dies after collapsing
  Posted July 27, 2011 Richard Harris, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers assistant head coach and defensive line coach, died Tuesday afternoon after collapsing at Canad Inns Stadium.
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• Shilo soldier dies in motorcycle crash
  Posted July 27, 2011 A member of the Canadian military was westbound on Mountain Street in Boissevain when he struck a bulldozer, which was parked in a construction company yard near the road.
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• Niagara-area hospital worker infected with C. difficile
  Posted July 27, 2011 A hospital worker in the Niagara region has contracted C. difficile.
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• Workplace fatality in the RM of Thompson, Manitoba
  Posted July 26, 2011: Sadly, a 49-year-old male was fatally injured today when he lost his footing and fell from the rafters at a construction site. Details are limited at this time.
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• Barn fire kills 12,000 chickens
  Posted July 26, 2011 A barn fire Friday afternoon on a poultry farm near Manitou killed 12,000 chickens.
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• Soldier dies in motorcycle-bulldozer crash
  Posted July 26, 2011 A 31-year-old man was thrown from his motorcycle after driving into a bulldozer parked in a Boissevain construction site. He was rushed to hospital but succumbed to his injuries there.
  
  
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• Wabush Mines fined more than $80,000 for 2008 accident that injured worker
  Posted July 26, 2011 Wabush Mines has been fined more than $80,000 after an employee was hurt in a 2008 incident at the Labrador operation.
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• Pipeline Contractor Fined $50,000 After Fire
  Posted July 26,2011 Robert B. Somerville Co. Limited, a King City pipeline contractor, was fined $50,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that resulted in a fire.
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• York officer shot in wrist after robbery in Aurora
  Posted July 22, 2011 A York Regional Police officer remained in hospital on Friday after being injured in a shootout with armed bandits at an Aurora shopping mall.
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• Clerk tells robber ‘this isn’t going to happen’
  Posted July 22, 2011 A robber walked away empty-handed from a department store pharmacy, thanks to the gutsy -- and potentially dangerous -- actions of a clerk.
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• Spencer Steel Limited Fined $55,000 After Workers Injured
  Posted July 22, 2011 Spencer Steel Limited, an Ilderton construction company that designs and installs steel products, was fined $55,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after two workers were injured.
  
  
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• Police shoot robbery suspect on St. Mary's Road
  Posted July 21, 2011 A man armed with a knife who was suspected of robbing a city taxi in Old St. Vital was shot by police this morning following an altercation
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• Angry McCustomer goes berserk
  Posted July 21, 2011 An Edmonton court hears of an incident involving an unhappy McDonalds' customer.
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• Summerside charged in chlorine gas accident
  Posted July 21, 2011 The City of Summerside is facing four charges connected to the May accident, which happened when a worker mixed together the wrong chemicals. The resulting cloud of chlorine gas sent 22 people to hospital, and prompted an investigation by the Workers Compensation Board.
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• Airline suspended after fatal crash
  Posted July 19, 2011 Missinippi Airways has had its operations suspended after one of its flights crashed. The small commercial aircraft went off the end of a runway during takeoff from Pukatawagan, killing a 56-year-old man from Opaskwayak Cree Nation.
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• Stage collapses at Ottawa music festival
  Posted July 19, 2011 A wicked storm blew across festival grounds during Cheap Trick’s set on the final night of Ottawa’s Bluesfest, toppling the stage and injuring multiple people.
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• Previous collapse for makers of Bluesfest stage
  Posted July 19, 2011 The stage that collapsed at the Ottawa Bluesfest on Sunday night, injuring three people, was owned by a company linked to a similar collapse two years ago in Quebec City.
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• Fatal workplace accident
  Posted July 19, 2011 A 35-year-old man has died after he was found trapped in a machine inside a warehouse.
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• Electro-Pack Inc. Fined $50,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted july 19, 2011 Electro-Pack Inc., a Toronto manufacturer of packaging, was fined $50,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.
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• 'Miscommunication' may have led to CN worker's death: police
  Posted July 18, 2011 Miscommunication may have led to a collision that killed a CN track worker east of Toronto. Track maintenance engineer Rick McColl, 53, of Hampton, Ont., died after he was struck by a westbound VIA passenger train.
  
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• Driver survives 15-metre drop into Montreal pit
  Posted July 18, 2011 A man in Montreal is alive after the car he was driving plummeted almost three storeys and was impaled on steel rods at a construction site.
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• Goldcorp Canada Ltd. Fined $50,000 After Safety Violation
  Posted July 18, 2011 Goldcorp Canada Ltd., an underground gold mining operation, was fined $50,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a Ministry of Labour inspection.
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• Sifto Canada Corp. Fined $140,000 After Worker Killed
  Posted July 18, 2011 Sifto Canada Corp., operator of a Goderich salt mine, was fined $140,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was killed.
  
  
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• Newfoundland worker dies when front-end loader tips over
  Posted July 13, 2011 A 55-year-old man from Marystown, N.L., has been killed when the front-end loader tipped over a retaining wall.
  
  
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• Worker survives building collapse
  Posted July 11,2011 A building collapsed in Montreal’s Plateau district Sunday afternoon slightly injuring three construction workers.
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• Fishermen rescued off N.S. coast
  Posted July 11, 2011 Six Nova Scotia fishermen were plucked out of the Atlantic early Sunday morning after abandoning their sinking ship.
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• Firefighter injured in garage fire
  Posted July 8, 2011 A firefighter was injured Wednesday night while fighting a garage fire in the Spence Street neighbourhood.
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• Teen driving ATV killed as family members watch
  Posted July 8, 2011 A 14-year-old boy driving an all-terrain vehicle out to nelp with haying was struck and killed by a van as he crossed a Highway 268 in Manitoba.
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• Accident prompts changes at Cavendish Farms
  Posted July 8, 2011 Cavendish Farms has made changes to its potato frying equipment after a worker was badly burned there a few weeks ago.
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• Teen injured in fishery accident
  Posted July 8, 2011 An 18-year-old fishery worker from eastern Newfoundland is in hospital after being struck in the head by a heavy block of frozen fish.
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• Stampede rides safer than ever, company claims
  Posted July 8, 2011 The company that runs the midway at the Calgary Stampede says its rides are safe, one year after a frightening mishap.
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• B.C. roofer dies after falling through skylight of Gordon Campbell’s vacation home
  Posted July 8. 2011 A roofing worker who died after falling through a skylight at the vacation home of former B.C. premier Gordon Campbell is being remembered as a kind, hardworking and funny man.
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• Man killed in aircraft crash worked for Hydro
  Posted July 7, 2011 A 56-year-old Manitoba Hydro employee from Opaskwayak Cree Nation died Monday afternoon after a single-engine aircraft ran off the runway at the airport in Pukatawagan and caught fire.
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• 'Kicking and biting is part of your job'
  Posted July 7, 2011 Violence caused lost-time injuries for 51 teacher's aides over five years
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• Edmonton man sues former Yukon employer
  Posted July 7, 2011 An Edmonton worker who was injured while mining in the Yukon is suing his former employer and two other employees for damages.
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• Boys and Girls Club reopens after chlorine gas spill
  Posted July 7, 2011 A Boys and Girls Club in Ottawa's west end has reopened after a pool maintenance worker was sent to hospital after mistakenly mixing hydrochloric acid — used as a cleaner — with another chemical, creating chlorine gas.
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• 6 injured in flood-fight accident
  Posted July 5, 2011 Six people, including five soldiers, were rushed to hospital from the heart of the flood fight. At about 3:30 p.m., soldiers and civilian volunteers in Souris, Man. were unloading sandbags from a dump truck when a hydraulic line blew, spraying fluid over the workers.
  
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• Workplace violence legislated
  Posted July 4, 2011 All Manitoba employers will now have to report annually on all violent incidents in their workplace, as part of a set of changes coming to the province's workplace and safety rules.
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• Winnipeg family mourns death of rescuer
  Posted July 4, 2011 Wynn Sweatman is struggling with the tragic irony surrounding the death of his daughter -- a search-and-rescue technician in southern British Columbia.
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• Rollercoaster mishap injures worker at West Edmomton Mall
  Posted July 4, 2011 Alberta Occupational Health and Safety is investigating a workplace mishap that involved a worker being struck by a rollercoaster at West Edmonton Mall Friday. A 47-year-old worker was trying to remove a patron’s hat that was lodged in a track at the Galaxy Orbiter
  
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• Employer Fined $26,000 Total After Multiple Convictions
  Posted July 4, 2011 Lushington Grant, sole proprietor of Mississauga-based Century Estates, was fined $26,000 after being convicted of multiple violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
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• Manitoba; Bill 20 will Require Defibrillators to Be Installed in Many Public Spaces
  Posted June 30, 2011: Bill 20 received Royal Assent on 16 June 2011 (which means it will become an Act - and therefore law); however, it has not come into force yet. Keep an eye on this Bill, since more details will be made public over time.
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• Volunteer rescuer drowns during B.C. search-and-rescue
  Posted June 30, 2011 A B.C. volunteer search and rescue technician drowned Wednesday during a search-and-rescue operation in the British Columbia interior.
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• Winnipeg soldier charged in death
  Posted June 30, 2011 following a Military investigation that found safety procedures lax,a soldier based in Winnipeg has been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of a fellow soldier at a training range in Afghanistan in 2010.
  
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• Individual Fined $15,000 After Refusing to Cooperate With Ministry Inspectors
  Posted June 30,2011 Marcelo Ponciano, a representative with Toronto-based Asbescan Environmental Company Inc., was fined $15,000 on June 22, 2011, for violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act, after refusing to cooperate with Ministry of Labour inspectors.
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• Two missing fishermen found on Manitoba lake
  Posted June 29, 2011 Two men who didn't return from a fishing trip on Lake Winnipeg have been found safe. The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Canadian Forces Base Trenton in Ontario says the men were discovered by spotters in a C-130 Hercules airplane.
  
  
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• Individual Fined $15,000 After Refusing to Cooperate With Ministry Inspectors
  Posted June 29, 2011 Marcelo Ponciano, a representative with Toronto-based Asbescan Environmental Company Inc., was fined $15,000 for violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act, after refusing to cooperate with Ministry of Labour inspectors.
  
  
  
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• Caregiver's death no surprise, says fellow worker
  Posted June 29, 2011 A former mental health worker is angry, but not surprised that an Alberta man with a history of attacking women was placed with a female caregiver who he was later accused of strangling.
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• Ottawa worker injured after scaffolding fall
  Posted June 29, 2011 A construction worker was sent to hospital with pelvic injuries, cuts and bruises after he fell from third-floor scaffolding and had part of a wall collapse onto him.
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• Charges laid in Halton Region traffic fatality
  Posted June 29, 2011 A truck driver, the company that owns the vehicle and an excavating firm are charged with their alleged roles in a Oakville crash that killed a woman in January.
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• Family-run Paladin burns for most of day
  Posted June 29, 2011 A fire has devoured a St. Boniface institution. Only a burnt shell remains of the Paladin restaurant, famed for its homestyle breakfasts, prime rib nights, pastries and confusing warren of rooms.
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• Police officer dies after York collision
  Posted June 29, 2011 A police officer in York region north of Toronto has died of his injuries after being struck and pinned under a vehicle during an early morning traffic stop Tuesday.
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• EMS worker injured in crash involving ambulance
  Posted June 27, 2011 An EMS crew had a close call when its ambulance collided with a van at a Toronto intersection Thursday.
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• Hazardous cargo data on crashes disturbing
  Posted June 27, 2011 Government crash reports reveal that thousands of people who transport dangerous cargo put themselves and others at even greater risk by not taking enough care on Canada's roads and rails.
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• Greyhound driver investigated for distracted driving
  Posted June 24, 2011 A Greyhound bus driver is being investigated after video surfaced showing him driving on a northern Alberta highway while using his cell phone.
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• Cop struggled with mental illness
  Posted June 23, 2011 Here is a story about mental health issues that touches the workplace and home life.
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• Officer shot, expected to recover
  Posted June 23, 2011 A police officer from the central Ontario community of Peterborough is expected to recover after he was shot Wednesday morning while executing a drug warrant in an incident in which another man was shot and killed.
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• RCMP release photos of suspect in Yorkton homicide
  Posted June 22, 2011 RCMP are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect in the killing of a gas station employee in Yorkton.
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• Ministry issues 9 work orders in deaths of 2 Sudbury miners
  Posted June 21, 2011 The Ontario Labour Ministry has issued a total of nine work orders, including two work-stoppages, after two miners died underground in Sudbury, Ont.
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• Young worker killed while repairing flood-damaged cottage
  Posted June 21, 2011 — A 23-year-old man died at a construction site in the municipality of Victoria Beach Monday afternoon when he was levelling a cottage damaged by flooding.
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• Construction blast sends rock hurtling into cars
  Posted June 21, 2011 WorkSafe New Brunswick is investigating a blasting incident that sent rocks hurtling into cars and windows in a parking lot in Saint John.
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• Potash mine worker dies when vehicle flips
  Posted June 20, 2011 RCMP say a worker at a Saskatchewan potash mine was killed when the underground vehicle he was driving flipped.
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• Value in short-haul helicopter rescues
  Posted June 20, 2011 Plucking two American police officers from their stranded boat sitting three football fields away from the brink of the Horseshoe Falls proved years of practicing helicopter rescues was worth it
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• Half of workers and managers have faced mental health issues, study suggests
  Posted June 20, 2011 Mental illness in the workplace is a huge issue hiding in plain sight, a situation made clear in a new report by the Conference Board of Canada
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• Hero bus driver honoured
  Posted June 15 2011: (A Good News Story!) A bus driver was honoured today for his quick thinking that saved the lives of 18 kids. Lesson Learned: He was alert, made a good decision and reacted quickly. The school bus was his workplace at that moment in time and the children were under his care. You too could help avoid a tragedy if you remain alert at all times!
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• BC Company fined $140,000 in connection to workplace death
  Posted June 14, 2011: Although this death occurred on the West Coast, the lessons that can be learned are just as strong as if it happened in our own province: Be vigilant in assessing your workplace for safety violations.
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• Two charged in pizza robbery
  Posted June 14, 2011 A pizza delivery driver was robbed by two armed males as he exited a vehicle to deliver a pie early Monday morning in the first 100-block of Strauss Drive in St. James.
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• Montreal construction crane topples, operator injured
  Posted June 10, 2011 A female operator suffered two broken arms and a broken leg when a mobile construction crane working on a condominium project at the old Seville Theatre site toppled over Wednesday afternoon.
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• Two miners killed in Sudbury
  Posted June 9, 2011 Two miners were killed Wednesday at a Vale's Stobie Mine near Sudbury.
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• Two deaths in manhole
  Posted June 9, 2011 Investigators think two construction workers killed in a manhole beside U.S. 70 may have suffocated one at a time after the first went down the hole to retrieve some equipment and lost consciousness, and the other followed to rescue him.
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• Fire destroys barns and kills up to 30,000 chickens east of Calgary
  Posted June 8, 2011 A massive fire has gutted the barns of one of the province’s largest egg producers.
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• Some workers overexposed to radiation, fed data shows doses above safe limits
  Posted June 8, 2011 Some medical specialists and other workers have been overexposed to radiation, a few getting doses high enough to change their blood chemistry and even cause radiation sickness. Read more here...
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• Cops, paramedics face grow-op and drug-lab danger, including booby traps: report
  Posted June 6, 2011 Canada's cops, firefighters and paramedics need better training on the hazards they face when inadvertently entering grow-ops and drug labs — some rigged with booby traps meant to injure or kill them.
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• Ontario police chiefs set to vote on ‘gas and dash’ resolution
  Posted June 4, 2011 One month after a Mississauga service station attendant died from injuries sustained while chasing a driver who fled without paying for gas, Ontario police chiefs will vote on urging the province to make pay-first pumps mandatory.
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• Safety concern closes part of St. George school
  Posted June 4, 2011 The Department of Education has closed access to part of St. George Elementary School after it found problems as a part of its structural review of New Brunswick's schools.
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• Injured bus riders sue Ottawa transit for $4.2M 0
  Posted June 3,2011 Two seniors are each suing OC Transpo for $2.1 million for injuries they received after falling while riding the bus, allegedly because of bad driving.
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• Employer Fined Total of $60,000 After Worker Seriously Injured
  Posted June 1,2011 A worker, who was removing debris from the frame of a conveyor, slipped and fell. The worker's hand and arm became entangled between the conveyor belt and a roller, which caused severe arm and shoulder injuries.
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• 3 Royal Canadian Mint workers reported OK after breathing chemical fumes
  Posted May 31, 2011 - The Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa says three workers are OK after inhaling some chemical fumes.
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• Hole swallows city dump truck
  Posted May 30, 2011 A hole in an East Kildonan street broke open Saturday, swallowing much of the back end of a City of Winnipeg dump truck as it was being filled with concrete and other materials during excavation for a water main upgrade.
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• Councillor saves rookie MP's life
  Posted May 30, 2011 Remember when your mother always told you to never talk with food in your mouth?
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• Student dies after shop class blast
  Posted May 11,2011 Grieving students flooded back to Mother Teresa High School Thursday night, when word spread their classmate Eric Leighton had died in hospital from injuries in an explosion in shop class earlier in the day.
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• Station attendant dies after gas ’n’ dash
  Posted May 27, 2011 A 62-year-old man has died after being run down last week trying to stop a pump-and-dash robbery at a Mississauga, Ont., service station.
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• Worker injured after fall
  Posted May 27, 2011 A construction worker is in serious condition after falling more than 20 feet into a mud construction pit while working at the Saudi Arabian Embassy.
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• Paving company charged in relation to fatal accident
  Posted May 27, 2011 Concord Paving Ltd. has been charged with violations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations in relation to a fatal accident where a flagperson was struck by an excavator that was cleaning out the ditch beside the roadway.
  
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• Cops, security guard assaulted at Winnipeg Kid Rock concert
  Posted May 26, 2011 A 24-year-old patron allegedly punched a security guard in the face at MTS Centre on Tuesday when he was asked to show his ticket for the concert, part of Kid Rock’s “Born Free” album tour.
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• Cicero company fined $1.2 million over asbestos
  Posted May 26, 2011 A Cicero company has been fined more than $1.2 million for requiring its workers to remove asbestos without proper training or protection.
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• Barn fire kills 4,000 hogs
  Posted May 24, 2011 A blaze tore through a rural Manitoba hog barn Saturday morning, killing approximately 4000 animals.
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• Slave Lake helicopter crash kills pilot
  Posted May 24, 2011 A helicopter responding to the fire situation in Slave Lake crashed on Friday near the town and the male pilot of the helicopter, who was the only person on board at the time, died in the crash.
  
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• Summertime and the job market is busy: Summer Students (Winnipeg Free Press)
  Posted May 21, 2011: Hiring a student is much more than just signing the first young person who knocks on your door. In fact, employers need to pay just as much attention to recruiting summer students as they would with a full-time, permanent employee. For instance, summer student skills and abilities must parallel the skills of a permanent employee, although it is understandable they will not be as experienced.
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• Daycare worker fired after voicing safety concerns
  Posted May 20, 2011 A former daycare worker in Dartmouth, N.S., says she was fired for reporting what she considered safety concerns at her workplace to the Department of Community Services.
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• Suspect sought after gas station worker critically hurt in alleged hit and run
  Posted May 20, 2011 A 62-year-old man is fighting for his life in hospital after he was hit by a car while trying to stop a driver from stealing gasoline at a pump in Mississauga.
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• Worker assaulted by client fights to get job back
  Posted May 20, 2011 A provincial employee is fighting to get his job back after being fired following an attack that he says made it impossible to work.
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• Curtain Wall Assembler Fined $50,000 After Worker Seriously Injured and For Safety Violations
  Posted May 20, 2011 - Zimmcor (1993) Inc., a Concord, Ont., company that assembles curtain walls, was fined $50,000 on May 16, 2011, after a worker was seriously injured and for violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
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• No spill in anhydrous ammonia tanker rollover
  Posted May 19, 2011 A semi-trailer tanker truck hauling anhydrous ammonia — a highly toxic compound — has rolled into a ditch without spilling the dangerous cargo.
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• Boy charged in killing of pizza store employee
  Posted May 18, 2011 WINNIPEG — A 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of a 54-year-old Pizza Hotline employee.
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• OHS investigates workplace death
  Posted May 18, 2011 Alberta Occupational Health and Safety are investigating a workplace death near Edson, Alta., where a man in his 50's was working on a site north of Highway 16 when he was killed.
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• Lack of communication led to care-home shooting: WorkSafeBC report
  Posted May 18, 2011 A WorkSafeBC investigation into a shooting at a care home on the Sunshine Coast found the lack of communication between agencies involved with the shooter meant staff were not safeguarded from violence.
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• Two companies, three men plead guilty in connection with mushroom farm incident
  Posted May 18, 2011 Two companies and three men pleaded guilty Friday to failing to ensure the health and safety of three Langley mushroom-farm workers who died in 2008 and two others who suffered brain damage.
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• Suspect pulls out knife, ends up in hospital
  Posted may 16, 2011 A confrontation inside a West End gas station store ended up with the alleged aggressor being sent to hospital.
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• Robbery leads to assault
  Posted May 16, 2011 A 54-year-old man was sent to hospital in critical condition after being assaulted during the robbery of a pizza business in East Kildonan early Sunday.
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• Newspaper carrier's condition improves
  Posted May 16, 2011 A Winnipeg Free Press carrier who was viciously beaten on the job Saturday is no longer in a coma and is breathing on his own, family said Sunday.
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• 1 dead after oil truck hits train, explodes
  Posted May 16, 2011 One person is dead after an oil truck hit a Canadian Pacific Railway train near Brooks and exploded.
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• Automotive Manufacturer Fined $120,000 After Worker Seriously Injured
  Posted May 16, 2011 Rieter Automotive Mastico Ltd. was fined $120,000 on May 11, 2011, for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was seriously injured.
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• Elevator shaft fall leaves man seriously hurt
  Posted May 13, 2011 A 33-year old Toronto man suffered serious injuries after falling head first down an elevator shaft at a grocery store in Vaughan.
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• Park warden’s widow sues feds over husband’s suicide
  Posted May 11, 2011 A McCreary woman is suing Parks Canada, alleging harassment by a junior staff member drove her park warden husband to suicide.
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• Construction Companies Fined $100,000 Total After Worker Killed
  Posted May 11, 2011 Moose Band Development Corporation was fined $65,000 yesterday for violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that caused a worker to be killed. Daak Enterprises Ltd. was fined $35,000 in relation to the same incident.
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• Driver fired following fatal collision
  Posted May 9. 2011 The suspected impaired driver involved in a Surrey traffic fatality Tuesday has been fired from her job for driving a company vehicle involved in the accident without authorization.
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• Christmas party killer to serve 15 years before chance of parole, judge decides
  Posted May 10, 2011 A Vancouver man who fatally shot his boss at a staff Christmas party in 2008 will have to spend at least 15 years in prison before he can apply for parole.
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• Beaten Edmonton bus driver in benefit fight
  Posted May 6, 2011 Edmonton bus driver Tom Bregg, who was viciously beaten a year and a half ago, is now fighting the Workers Compensation Board for benefits.
  
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• Ottawa man remembered as a hard-worker who was fun to be around
  Posted may 6, 2011 Investigators remain on the scene of a construction site in the Sandy Hill area of Ottawa where a 50-year-old man was killed after a slab of concrete fell on him.
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• One person injured in industrial accident at Coast Guard dock
  Posted May 6, 2011 Firefighters, police and paramedics responded to an industrial accident about noon today at the Coast Guard dock on Southside Road in St. John’s. One person was removed from the ship Sygnus and transported to hospital by ambulance. The person appeared to be conscious, however, the extent of any injuries is unknown.
  
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• Supervisor Fined $12,000 Total After Worker Injured
  Posted May 6, 2011 Dustin Greer, a supervisor with Barabco Design/Build Inc., was fined $8,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that caused a worker to be injured. He was also fined $4,000 for providing an inspector with false information.
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• Construction worker killed by cement slab
  Posted May 5, 2011 A construction worker who was pinned under a cement slab at a site in the Sandy Hill area of Ottawa has died of his injuries after being transported to hospital Wednesday without vital signs.
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• Chlorine gas release sends 20 to hospital
  Posted May 4, 2011 About 20 people were sent to hospital following an accidental release of chlorine gas Wednesday morning at a sports centre in Summerside, P.E.I., and one is in intensive care.
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• Alta. oil pipeline leaked 28,000 barrels
  Posted May 4, 2011 A pipeline break northeast of Peace River, Alta., has leaked 28,000 barrels of crude oil, during what is now considered to be one of the largest spills in the province's history.
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• Fine against drug firm in lab worker's death a 'slap on the hand,' family says
  Posted May 4, 2011 Relatives of a Nova Scotia worker who died after inhaling a chemical that caused his lungs to fill with fluid say the fine levied against his employer is just a "slap on the hand" for a giant drug manufacturer.
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• Manufacturer and Supervisor Fined $54,000 Total After Worker Injured
  Posted May 4, 2011 The Elmwood Group Limited, was fined $50,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured. Jake Tissen, a supervisor with the company, was fined $4,000
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• B.C. heli-ski guide dies in crevasse fall
  Posted May 3, 2011 RCMP in northern B.C., are trying to recover the body of an Austrian heli-skiing guide who was killed Sunday after falling into a crevasse.
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• Buildings emptied after downtown gas line broken
  Posted May 3, 2011 A natural gas line leading into a downtown Saskatoon building was broken Monday, leading to an evacuation.
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• Triple M Metal Corp. Fined $150,000 After Worker Killed
  Posted May 3, 2011 Triple M Metal Corp., was fined $150,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was killed.
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• Constructor and Supervisor Fined $53,000 Total After Worker Injured
  Posted May 3, 2011 Resform Construction Ltd., was fined $50,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured. Justin Lowes, a supervisor with the company, was fined $3,000 in relation to the same incident.
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• Algoma Tubes Inc. Fined $55,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted May 3, 2011 Algoma Tubes Inc., was fined $55,000 after a worker opened a door, slipped on a wet surface and fell to the ground. The worker suffered a fracture to the arm.
  
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• Hydrogen Sulfide Leak Kills Worker
  Posted May 2, 2011. Deadly sour gas has killed the second worker in three years near the small Alberta community of Fox Creek.
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• Province marks Day of Mourning with $20K workplace-safety grant
  Posted April 29th, 2011. Safe Workers of Tomorrow held a march to the Legislature on Thursday including hundreds of students, workers and labour leaders.
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• Workplace mishap kills Alberta man
  Posted April 29, 2011 EDMONTON- A 54-year-old man is dead after he fell from his ladder and struck his head at his Lac La Biche workplace on Wednesday morning.
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• Fire forces evacuation of Winnipeg Wal-Mart
  Posted April 28, 2011 Flames broke out in a stack of pallets and boxes outside the store on Portage Avenue, in the city's Unicity neighbourhood, at about 5:30 p.m.
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• Police officer, custodian hurt in elevator crash
  Posted April 28, 2011 Children of the Earth High School's police officer and custodian were hurt Wednesday afternoon when the freight elevator they were in suddenly plunged three metres to a concrete floor.
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• Van carrying seasonal farm workers crashes east of Quebec City
  Posted April 27, 2011 A minivan carrying migrant agriculture workers rolled over and threw some onto Highway 20 east of Quebec City on Monday, killing one and injuring seven others.
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• Water closes Wawanesa school
  Posted April 27, 2011 Workers at the Wawanesa School in western Manitoba are pumping water from a flooded crawlspace that has forced the building to close.
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• Saskatchewan seeks feedback on OHS amendments
  Posted April 26, 2011. The government of Saskatchewan is seeking feedback on amendments on Occupational Health and Safety legislation.
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• Stony Mountain man dies at Wuskwatim Dam work site
  Posted April 26, 2011. Wanda Leschyshyn, 61, said her husband was only weeks away from retirement.
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• Death at Wuskwatim Dam site - Manitoba workplace fatality
  One man has died in a fatal workplace accident at the Wuskwatim Dam, approximately 40 kilometres north of Thompson.
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• St. John's fast-food worker sent to hospital
  Posted Apr. 20, 2011 A fast-food employee in St. John's was treated in hospital early Tuesday morning after some oven cleaner that he was using got in his eyes.
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• Labrador mine worker killed
  Posted Apr. 20, 2011 A man working on a power line at the Iron Ore Company of Canada in western Labrador died on the job Tuesday.
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• G&K Services Canada Inc. Fined $60,000 After Worker injured
  Posted Apr. 20, 2011 G&K Services Canada Inc., a uniform supplier, was fined $60,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.
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• City staffers' lead feet rack up tickets
  Posted Apr. 19, 2011 Winnipeg Transit drivers racked up 34 photo enforcement tickets last year, while other city staff accounted for more tickets.
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• FAA suspends air traffic controller for movie watching after open microphone broadcasts audio
  Posted Apr. 19, 2011 An air traffic controller has been suspended for watching a movie when he was supposed to be monitoring aircraft.
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• Migrant workers facing serious health risks
  Posted Apr. 19, 2011 Many migrant farm workers who come to Canada every year are not given proper safety training, live in hot and cramped quarters, have no access to clean water and see their health suffer as a result.
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• Greeter scarred after dog bites off tip of nose
  Posted Apr. 19, 2011 A greeter at a Home Depot store in Ottawa will have scars for the rest of her life after a customer's Shih Tzu dog bit off the tip of her nose last week.
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• Gas bar hold up
  Posted Apr. 18, 2011 A gas bar in the 3000 block of Portage was held up early Saturday morning by two suspects, one armed with a weapon.
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• U.S. ups rest for air traffic controllers
  Posted Apr.18, 2011 New rules announced by the Federal Aviation Administration include an extra hour off between shifts, setting the minimum number of hours between shifts to nine.
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• Man killed when van plows through roadblock
  Posted Apr. 18, 2011 A man was killed when his van plowed through a roadblock and slammed into a parked emergency vehicle at the scene of a rollover northeast of Edmonton.
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• Suncor fined $275K for environmental charge
  Posted Apr.18, 2011 Suncor Energy has been handed a $275,000 environmental fine for failing to comply with its Water Act approval.
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• Roof collapses at Calgary seniors' centre
  Posted Apr.14, 2011 Part of a roof collapsed into the dining room of a Calgary seniors centre, causing minor injuries. Workers were present when the incident happened.
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• Two banks held up Wednesday
  Posted Apr. 14, 2011 A pair of bank hold-ups on Wednesday in Winnipeg are under investigation by the Winnipeg police Major Crimes Unit.
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• Gas bar robbed
  Posted Apr. 13, 2011 Police are investigating after a River Heights gas bar was held up for smokes and cash.
  A 19-year-old clerk was confronted by an armed suspect demanding cigarettes and money.
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• Roof repairs cause of fatal Ontario fire
  Posted Apr. 13, 2011 The fatal Listowel fire, which claimed the lives of two firefighters, started when contractors were repairing the store roof.
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• Pasta machine running during fatal fall: ministry
  Posted Apr. 13, 2011 The Ontario Ministry of Labour is investigating why a 26-year-old man who died while working at a Toronto factory on Monday was performing maintenance on a pasta-making machine while it was running.
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• Safety group probes fatal scaffold collapse
  Posted Apr. 13, 2011 Workplace safety investigators continue to investigate the cause of a scaffold collapse Friday that killed a masonry employee, and injured three others.
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• Dauphin Armed Robbery
  Posted Apr. 12, 2011 A pair of masked thugs held-up the 7-Eleven in Dauphin at gunpoint as the suspects appeared to be armed with a long gun and demanded cash.
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• Workers are encouraged to tie one on
  Posted Apr.12, 2011 The Workers Compensation Board doesn't want any of the students about to embark on summer construction jobs to worry about statistics -- becoming one, that is.
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• Omega Contractors Inc. Fined $52,000 After Worker injured
  Posted Apr. 12, 2011 Omega Contractors Inc., a London construction company, was fined $52,000 for violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.
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• Woodstock Stampings Inc. Fined $75,000 After Worker injured
  Posted Apr. 12, 2011 Woodstock Stampings Inc., a Woodstock manufacturer of metal stampings, was fined $75,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.
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• Man with knife robs bank
  Posted Apr. 6, 2011 A male suspect with a knife robbed a Winnipeg bank Monday. The suspect entered the bank in the 1500-block of Dakota about 5 p.m. and grabbed money before fleeing on foot.
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• Defibrillators in the news
  Posted Apr. 6, 2011 Paramedics are questioning whether an on-site defibrillator could have saved the life of a 38-year-old ball hockey player Tuesday night. And as proof, they only have to point to an incident less than two hours earlier in which a hockey player was revived.
  
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• AGF Raymond Rebar Inc. Fined $110,000 After Worker injured
  Posted Apr.6, 2011 AGF Raymond Rebar Inc., an Ottawa construction company, was fined $110,000 yesterday for violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.
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• Man run over by fire truck
  Posted Apr. 5, 2011 A fire truck on its way to a call ran over and killed a man who was lying in a Winnipeg street early Sunday morning.
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• WRHA butts in on anti-smoking proposal
  Posted Apr. 5, 2011 The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is hoping a proposed city bylaw would help curb smoking near hospitals and medical clinics.
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• Tuberculosis confirmed at elementary school
  Posted Apr. 5, 2011 Toronto's public health department has confirmed that a case of tuberculosis has been reported at an elementary school in the city's east end.
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• Charges withdrawn in landfill death
  Posted Apr.5, 2011 The Crown has withdrawn criminal charges in the 2009 death of public works employee James Vecchio at the city landfill site.
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• Canada Post employee caught eating and driving
  Posted Apr. 1, 2011 A Toronto Sun reader snapped a photo of a female Canada Post employee eating while driving a mail van north on the Don Valley Parkway just north of the Lawrence Ave. underpass. In the photo, shot late in the afternoon of March 21, the driver has her right hand on the wheel, and with her left hand is holding a container of salad -- complete with fork.
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• AGF Raymond Rebar Inc. Fined $110,000 After Worker injured
  Posted Mar. 31, 2011 AGF Raymond Rebar Inc., an Ottawa construction company, was fined $110,000 yesterday for violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.
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• Probation for elderly blind driver who killed flagger
  Posted Mar. 31, 2011 An 88-year-old B.C. man who was driving without a licence when he struck and killed a traffic flagger has been handed a suspended sentence.
  
  
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• Man Sucked Into Pipe At Sewage Treatment Plant
  Posted Mar. 31, 2011 Rescuers saved a man who got sucked into a sewer pipe at a University Place sewage treatment plant and was carried nearly three-quarters of a mile downstream Monday morning.
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• Evacuation plans made for health-care facilities in preparation for spring flood
  Posted Mar. 31, 2011 Officials in Manitoba are working on evacuation plans in case health-care facilities need to be cleared out because of spring flooding.
  
  
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• Worker dies at Belmont Ave. construction site
  Posted Mar. 31, 2011 A worker at a Kitchener condo site was killed Wednesday, apparently after being struck by an eight-tonne slab of concrete.
  
  
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• Danger Pay
  Posted Mar. 31, 2011 On the late afternoon of December 24, 2009 - as many Torontonians were readying for the impending festivities - a crew of workers were toiling away at the 13th-storey level of a high-rise building in the city's west end.
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• Fire kills 8,000 chickens
  Posted Mar. 30, 2011 A chicken barn was completely destroyed along with 8,000 chickens at the Hillside Hutterite colony near Brandon on Wednesday.
  
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• Bakery, businesses toast following Niverville blaze
  Posted Mar. 30, 2011 A meeting place in Niverville was destroyed early Tuesday as fire ripped through a complex on the town’s main street, potentially causing millions of dollars in damage.
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• Crash closes Hwy. 1 near Portage
  Posted Mar. 18, 2011 A tractor-trailer was hauling an oversize load when it crashed into the overpass near Portage.
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• Air Canada on radiation alert
  Posted Mar. 18, 2011 Air Canada is closely monitoring its two daily flights from Japan for signs of radiation from leaking nuclear power plants.
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• Man charged after locking nurses in room following an assault
  Posted Mar. 17, 2011 A man has now been charged with aggravated assault, choking, forcible confinement, theft, fleeing from police and other offences in connection with an attack on two nurses at the Hamiota Health Centre.
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• Volunteer firefighters killed in Listowel, Ont.;
  Posted Mar. 18, 2011 Two volunteer firefighters died Thursday after the roof of a store collapsed in the town of Listowel Ontario.
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• U.S. pilot accused of flying drunk
  Posted Mar. 17, 2011 The first officer of a United Express flight has been indicted on charges of piloting a commercial airliner while drunk during a flight from Austin, Texas, to Denver in December.
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• Worker beaten at Edmonton group home
  Posted Mar. 17, 2011 A 16-year-old boy is in police custody Wednesday after a group home worker was viciously assaulted.
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• Metro Ontario Inc. Fined $350,000 After Young Worker Killed
  Posted Mar. 16, 2011 Metro Ontario Inc., a retail grocer, was fined $350,000 yesterday for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that caused a young worker's death.
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• Nurse attacked at Hamita hospital
  Posted Mar. 16, 2011 A man allegedly confronted two female nurses at the Hamiota hospital and attacked the older nurse with an undisclosed weapon and locked both women in a room.
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• Rural Manitoban workshop burns
  Posted Mar. 16, 2011 A fire heavily damaged the Agromec Industries workshop in the Rural Municipality of Elton.
  
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• Pizza driver robbed at gunpoint in The Pas
  Posted Mar. 16, 2011 A man and three male youths have been charged after an armed pizza heist in northern Manitoba on the weekend.
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• Crews flee failing nuke plant
  Posted Mar. 16, 2011 Japan suspended operations to keep its stricken nuclear plant from melting down Wednesday after surging radiation made it too dangerous to stay.
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• Manitoba fisherman's body found
  Posted Mar.15, 2011 The body of Blaine Starr, 18, was found after he walked away to get help after becoming stranded in a Bombardier.
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• Aecon Construction Group Inc. Fined $225,000 After Explosion
  Posted Mar. 15, 2011 Aecon Construction Group Inc., was fined $225,000 on March 7, 2011, for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after an explosion that killed a homeowner.
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• Laser aimed at Winnipeg police chopper
  Posted Mar. 10, 2011 Just after midnight early this morning, the police helicopter was buzzing near Portage Avenue and Broadway, when a bright green light from a laser pointer shot into the cockpit. The beam struck the pilot in the eyes.
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• Barge sinking nets $75,000 fine
  Posted Mar. 10, 2011 Atlantic Towing Ltd. has been fined $75,000 after its barge went down off Yarmouth two years ago.
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• 12 hurt in Alberta oilwell blast
  Posted Mar. 9, 2011 A 24-year-old man suffered critical burn wounds and 11 others were hurt in a flash fire at the Husky Energy site south of Edson, Alta.
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• Calgary transit drivers speeding
  Posted Mar.9, 2011 Calgary bus and city fleet drivers have doubled the amount of traffic violation tickets compared to last year.
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• Springside Paving & Construction Limited Fined $100,000 After Worker Killed
  Posted Mar. 9, 2011 Springside Paving & Construction Limited, a Woodbridge paving company, was fined $100,000 after a worker was run over and killed.
  
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• Steelworkers one step closer in bringing Weyerhaeuser to court over worker's death
  Posted Mar. 9, 2011 The private prosecution against Weyerhaeuser Inc. over the 2004 death of New Westminster sawmill worker Lyle Hewer moved one step further in the courts Wednesday when provincial court judge Terese Alexander ruled that a summons be issued to Weyerhaeuser.
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• Blaze destroys barn at city’s edge
  Posted March 2, 2011 Approximately $300,000 damage was caused in a fire at a landscaping firm and firewood supplier near the outskirts of Winnipeg
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• Man injured in collision with Manitoba Highways snowplow
  Posted March 2, 2011 A man was taken to hospital with unknown injuries after two vehicles collided on Highway 16.
  
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• City fined for workplace injury at sliding hill
  Posted March 2, 2011 The City of Brampton has been fined $75,000 for failing to take proper precautions in a workplace incident that resulted in a young worker being injured.
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• WorkSafeBC cuts fines in crane operator’s death
  Posted March 2, 2011 WorkSafeBC has greatly reduced one penalty imposed against two firms in relation to the 2009 death of a young crane operator working on construction of the Canada Line; and cancelled another one altogether.
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• Snowbird jet makes belly landing
  Posted March 2, 2011 A Tutor jet from the Snowbirds demonstration squadron has made a wheels-up landing at 15 Wing Moose Jaw.
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• Dad dies, son-in-law hurt on Ontario job
  Posted Feb. 25, 2011 Abram Guenther was killed and his son-in-law, Henry Klassen, was severely injured when a modular home slipped off it's supports.
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• Families of Cougar Flight 491 crash victims want action from Ottawa
  Posted Feb. 25, 2011 Families of the victims of a tragic helicopter crash off Newfoundland are putting pressure on Ottawa to act in the aftermath of a report into the accident.
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• High-speed chase halted after 2 officers hurt
  Posted Feb. 25, 2011 Peel Regional Police called off a high-speed chase in Mississauga Wednesday morning after two officers were injured and two cruisers were struck.
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• Police ’copter helps nab drunk-driving suspect
  Posted Feb. 24, 2011 Winnipeg’s police helicopter has played another key role in an arrest — this time of a suspect allegedly drunk behind the wheel of a city-owned truck.
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• Cop slammed for high-speed crash
  Posted Feb. 24, 2011 A judge has formally reprimanded a Winnipeg cop responsible for a high speed collision that sent four officers to hospital.
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• Man dies after bulldozer falls through ice
  Posted Feb. 24, 2011 A contractor working on a uranium exploration project in northern Saskatchewan is dead after his bulldozer fell through ice.
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• Company should be fined after rape, court hears
  Posted Feb. 24, 2011 Garda Canada Security Corp. pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single charge under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
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• Charges laid in death of young highway flagger
  Posted Feb. 22, 2011 The driver of a car that struck and killed a young woman working as a highway flagger east of Winnipeg last October is facing a charge of dangerous driving causing death.
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• Syncrude fined for death of worker hit by ice at Alberta processing plant
  Posted Feb. 22, 2011 Syncrude Canada has been ordered to pay a fine of $365,000 for the death of a worker who was struck by a slab of ice weighing hundreds of kilograms.
  
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• Charges against SaskEnergy over gas explosion stayed
  Posted Feb.22, 2011 Almost three years after a massive gas explosion in downtown Nipawin resulted in the deaths of Jack and Brent Boxall, the charges against SaskEnergy was stayed last week.
  
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• Driver drags 2 Montreal police officers
  Posted Feb. 21, 2011 Two female Montreal police officers suffered minor injuries when they were dragged 10 to 25 metres after they stopped a motorist on Sunday afternoon.
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• 10-year-old behind laser-pointer strike on police pilot
  Posted Feb. 21, 2011 A York Regional Police helicopter was the latest to be hit with a laser beam on Wednesday night.
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• Fireball lights up sky of northern Ontario town
  Posted Feb. 21, 2011 Several homes in a small northern Ontario town were evacuated late Saturday night after a natural-gas pipeline exploded and shot flames hundreds of feet in the air.
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• Edmonton woman sues Mexican resort, travel agency over corrosive drink
  Posted Feb. 21, 2011 An Edmonton woman is suing a Mexican resort owner and the company who sold her the all-inclusive vacation after she says she drank caustic cleaning fluid left in a water bottle in her hotel room fridge — ultimately leading to the removal of her esophagus.
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• Driver killed in crash with a stopped Manitoba Highways Truck
  Posted Feb. 19, 2011 A driver was killed when a vehicle smashed into a stopped Manitoba Highways pickup truck on The Trans Canada Highway.
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• Steinbach UPS store robbed
  Posted Feb. 19, 2011 RCMP are searching for a suspect after the UPS store in Steinbach was robbed Wednesday morning.
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• Laser beam incident with police helecopter
  Posted Feb. 19, 2011 A Lacombe man was fined $500 Friday for unintentionally shining a laser beam at Edmonton's Air-1 police helicopter while testing his son's laser on some tree leaves.
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• CBS' Lara Logan brutally attacked in Egypt
  Posted Feb. 19, 2011 A chief foreign correspondent for CBS News was separated from her crew and sexually assaulted while in Cairo's Tahrir Square covering the protests in Egypt last week.
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• Family to sue Walmart over son's death
  Posted Feb. 19, 2011 A New Brunswick couple whose only son died in a workplace accident at a Wal-Mart has retained a high-profile lawyer to launch a lawsuit against the company.
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• Winnipeg shopkeeper and holdup suspect injured
  Posted Feb. 16, 2011 A man accused of robbing two small grocery stores in Winnipeg’s downtown over the weekend had to be taken to hospital after a confrontation with a store clerk.
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• Pizza delivery driver was robbed at knifepoint in Portage la Prairie.
  Posted Feb. 16, 2011 The pizza delivery driver was outside his vehicle when he was told to hand over his money at knifepoint.
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• Firm acquitted on OHS charges
  Posted Feb.16, 2011 Robwel Constructors Ltd. Partnership was acquitted of the five Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) contraventions in the 2006 death of a worker at a northern uranium mine
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• Construction worker's death probed
  Posted Feb. 16, 2011 A 27-year-old man, died as he stood on a ladder while installing a steel beam over the door of a double garage.
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• Charges filed in electrocution of two workers
  Posted Feb. 16, Two men were electrocuted when equipment they were using touched an overhead power line at the Penn West gas plant site, about three kilometres west of Edmonton, on Jan. 29, 2009.
  
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• Smelter furnace out of service
  Posted Feb.16, 2011 A furnace at Vale Inco's Copper Cliff smelter site broke down, causing a wall to collapse.
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• Saskatchewan fertilizer plant fined after worker injured
  Posted Feb. 16, 2011 Rack Petroleum Ltd. was fined a total of $19,600 after a worker at the plant near Biggar was seriously injured last April when his arm was caught in a conveyer belt pulley.
  
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• Able Concrete and Supervisor Fined $110,000 Total After Worker Killed
  Posted Feb. 14, 2011 A foreman at the site directed a worker to put a formwork panel into place. The worker used a crane to move the panel to where it needed to be. As the panel was being set down, it shifted and came free of its rigging to the crane. The 700 kilogram panel fell onto the foreman, who died.
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• Charges laid in 2009 workplace electrocution deaths
  Posted Feb. 14, 2011 Charges have been laid in a workplace accident when Damien McEwen, 27, and Jason Banks, 32, were electrocuted when equipment they were using touched an overhead power line at the Penn West gas plant site, about three kilometres west of Edmonton, on Jan. 29, 2009.
  
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• Employer found guilty of criminal negligence causing the death of an employee
  Posted Feb. 14 2011 Mr. Pasquale Scrocca, a landscape contractor, was found guilty of criminal negligence causing death of one of his employees.
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• Pedestrian on tracks struck, killed by train
  Posted Feb. 14, 2011 A young man on foot died early Sunday morning after he was hit by a CN Rail freight train in south River Heights.
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• Three people die in head-on collision between van and school bus near Montreal
  Posted Feb. 9, 2011 - A minivan carrying eight people after a shift at work ended up on the wrong side of the road on Wednesday and crashed head-on into a school bus, killing three people and leaving several others injured.
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• Manitoba harassment claim fought
  Posted Feb. 8, 2011 The former executive director of the Manitoba Association of Native Fire Fighters says he has been wrongfully accused of harassing female staff.
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• Girl's construction site death fines 'woefully inadequate'
  Posted Feb. 8, 2011 The “woefully inadequate” fines levied against two Calgary companies in the accidental death of a little girl is little solace for her grieving mother.
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• Crane collapses at Nova Scotia school construction site
  Posted Feb.7, 2011 A construction crane collapsed during a lift of a wall section in Nova Scotia. No injuries reported.
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• 6 hurt by ice falling off roof of Cowboys Stadium
  Posted Feb. 7, 2011 Six workers were injured when snow and ice slid off the roof of Cowboys stadium.
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• Three skiers escape injury in chairlift fall
  Posted Feb. 7, 2011 Three people escaped injury when a chairlift at Marble Mountain Resort in western Newfoundland fell off shortly after the skiers loaded.
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• Janitor accused of fatally shooting US elementary school principal
  Posted Feb. 4, 2011 A janitor returned with a gun to shoot a school principal after the janitor was fired following an incident.
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• Guatemalan man dies of injuries after minibus flips over into Quebec ditch
  Posted Feb. 4, 2011 A mini bus carrying 13 passengers to work at a poultry facility left the road and flipped on its roof.
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• B.C. worker gets compensation for stress caused by mass dog slaughter
  Posted Feb. 4, 2011 A British Columbia worker has won a claim for workers’ compensation for stress after he was required to participate in a large-scale slaughter of sled dogs.
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• New provisions to address intimidation, bullying and humiliation in Manitoba workplaces
  Posted Feb. 4, 2011 A new occupational health and safety regulation providing protection for workers against psychological harassment comes into effect in Manitoba on Feb 1st.
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• No fall protection results in a $24,050.00 fine
  Posted Feb. 3, 2011 Clint Todd Contracting was fined after a worker fell off a roof approximately 12m to the concrete driveway below. He broke both heels and both ankles, and fractured his L3 vertebrae.
  
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• Carjacking foiled, robbers steal pizza
  Posted Feb. 3, 2011 Four suspects involved in an assault on a 19 year old female pizza delivery person in Selkirk.
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• Incident causes new ambush training scenarios for RCMP recruits
  Posted Feb. 3, 2011 The ambush of four Mounties nearly six years ago changed the way RCMP recruits are trained.
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• Canadian TV cameraman beaten by mob in Egypt; escapes with army's help
  Posted Feb. 3, 2011 A Canadian news cameraman was beaten by an angry mob in Egypt on Wednesday, one of many ugly scenes on a day when the country's ongoing political standoff took an increasingly violent turn.
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• Mechanic struck by spinning propeller blades
  Posted Feb. 3, 2011 A man sustained serious injuries after being struck by a moving aircraft propeller at Niagara Central Airport on Monday.
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• Charges laid for unsafe transportation of radioactive device
  Posted Feb. 3, 2011 The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has laid charges following events in November and December 2008 which resulted in two truck drivers being exposed to a radiation level above a limit set for the public.
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• Worker killed at a stampede party
  Posted Feb 3, 2011 Atrial is being held surrounding an incident where a worker was killed at a stampede party.
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• Alberta sees three workplace accidents over four days
  Posted Feb. 3, 2011 Alberta incidents include a crane fatality, a vehicle pierced by the forks of a forklift and a building collapse.
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• Toronto bus driver accused of texting
  Posted Jan. 28, 2011 The TTC bus driver was texting on a BlackBerry-like device while driving around 50 km/h when passenger Mike Schmitz took an iPhone photo of him Wednesday afternoon.
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• Man killed on Edmonton construction site 1 day before his 24th birthday
  Posted Jan.28,2011 A 23-year-old man working at a south Edmonton construction site died Thursday afternoon. The worker was in the basket of an aerial work platform, securing joists when one came loose and struck him just before 12:30 p.m.
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• Alberta minister 'disgusted' as dozens of construction sites fail safety blitz
  Posted Jan.28, 2011 Employment Minister Thomas Lukaszuk said Tuesday he's "disgusted" by the number of safety infractions uncovered during an inspection blitz of Alberta construction sites, signalling he wants to start ticketing people who break laws designed to protect workers.
  
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• Worked to death
  Posted Jan. 28, 2011 A special investigation into workplace incidents by the Calgary Herald.
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• National standards announced to protect police, paramedics, firefighters
  Posted Jan. 27, 2011 The federal government today announced the country's first national standard for protective equipment for its thousands of front-line emergency workers. That means first responders across the country will have the proper equipment in the event of a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear incident.
  
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• B.C. legislature opts out of province-wide earthquake drill
  Posted Jan. 27, 2011 Nearly half a million British Columbians were diving under a hard surface in a province-wide earthquake drill Wednesday, but people working at the B.C. legislature weren't among them. Workers and politicians at the legislature -- a historic building constructed well over a century ago -- didn't participate in the drill, though the B.C. government helped organize it.
  
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• $100,000 fine for failing to post signs
  Posted Jan. 27, 2011 Bruce Power Inc. recently pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay $100,000 for a health and safety violation after a worker was hit on the head by a falling object more than two years ago at the Tiverton-area plant.
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• 21 Workers Killed In Colombian Mine Blast
  Posted Jan. 27, 2011 An explosion likely caused by a methane gas build up ripped through an underground coal mine in Colombia during a shift change Wednesday, killing 21 workers, officials said. A similar fatal blast occurred at the same mine four years ago.
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• Manitoba hog barn rocked by methane explosion
  Posted Jan. 26, 2011 Livestock at a Manitoba pig barn escaped injury after a gas-related explosion last week. A methane gas leak caused by an equipment malfunction led to the explosion at a barn on Leblanc Road in the Rural Municipality of Ritchot.
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• "Comprimise" reached in taxi shield issue
  Posted Jan 26, 2011 The delay in getting safety shields into Winnipeg taxis has largely to do with the recent addition of another design option that wasn’t available before. But last week the board approved a second shield design, a three-quarter model that runs only to the beginning of the passenger seat.
  
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• Major train derailment in Ontario
  Posted Jan. 26, 2011 Emergency crews are on the scene of a massive train derailment Wednesday morning outside Severn Falls, Ont.
  21 cars on the eastbound train spilled from the tracks at about 4 a.m. Some of the derailed cars struck a train stopped on an adjacent track.
  
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• Roof collapses at Alberta senior centre
  Posted Jan. 26, 2011 About 150 seniors at choir practice escaped unscathed after the snow-laden roof of their northside recreation centre collapsed Tuesday afternoon.
  
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• Winnipeg Regional Health Authority fined $78,050.00 following injury
  
  Posted Jan. 25, 2011 A worker sustained lacerations and bruising to his left ear, head, scalp, and left arm when his head and left arm were trapped between an industrial washing machine and a laundry hopper. The company was fined for failing to provide a LX445 Lavatec Washer-Extractor with optional metal hopper attachment that prevented a worker from coming into contact with the moving parts of the machine.
  
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• Full driver safety shields not installed
  Posted Jan. 25, 2011 Despite an ongoing spat with the Taxicab Board over the mandatory installation of full driver shields, Unicity Taxi and Duffy’s Taxi had vehicles on Winnipeg streets this morning.
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• Cement mixer crashes in St. Boniface
  Posted Jan. 25, 2011 A stretch of Dawson Road between Panet Road and Rue Plinguet has reopened following a crash involving a truck in the St. Boniface neighbourhood this afternoon.
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• Worker who died after fall at Canada Place hadn't tied off his safety harness
  Posted Jan.24, 2011. The worker who died two days after falling 14 metres while working on the sails at Canada Place Dec. 2 "was not using a personal fall protection system" at the time of the accident.
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• Warehouse worker crushed to death while moving equipment with forklift
  Posted Jan.24, 2011 A warehouse worker has been crushed to death while attempting to move a piece of equipment with a forklift in Burnaby, B.C.
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• Hard hat saved worker's life, Ontario police department says
  Posted Jan.21, 2011 A hard hat probably saved a worker's life when a metal support beam weighing between 27 and 32 kilograms had fallen from the building , striking the 31-year-old worker on the head, face and upper torso.
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• Passenger spots body under T.O.bus
  Posted Jan.21, 2011 A man, believed to be in his 50s, was apparently struck and killed by the bus around 5:20 a.m. A passenger who had got off the bus saw the body under the front right tire, and knocked on the bus door to alert the driver.
  
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• Social worker attacked in her home
  Posted Jan. 12, 2011 A Gatineau, Que., social worker was assaulted in her home Monday afternoon after returning from work. Reports say the attacker was an adolescent that the employee of the Centres jeunesse de l'Outaouais knew and had worked with.
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• Winnipeggers urged to shovel for safety
  Posted Jan.21,2011 Mayor Sam Katz and reps from Canada Post and Manitoba Hydro were on hand to demonstrate safe shovelling techniques and to encourage citizens clear their sidewalks so that mail carriers and other workers can do their work safely.
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• 54 kids and 6 adults to hospital due to C02 leak
  Posted Jan. 20, 2011 More than 80 children and staff had to be evacuated from Peek-A-Boo Infant Child Care on the 3100 block of Portage Avenue following a carbon monoxide leak.
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• Winnipeg drug store employees assaulted
  Posted Jan.20, 2011 Police are looking for a violent robber who was apparently craving opiate drugs when he assaulted two employees of a small pharmacy on Tuesday, the third time in just over a month the same pharmacy has been hit by thieves.
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• Rescuers elated as worker saved at Sask. gold mill
  Posted Jan.20,2011 A 61 year old contract welder was pinned by rocks at the Jolu gold mill, north of La Ronge, Sask. He had been trying to dislodge some rocks in the crushing room when the rocks shifted, trapping him.
  
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• Canadian soldier dies following fall from a roof
  Posted Jan. 18, 2011 Cpl. Jean-Michel Deziel fell off the roof while installing a telecommunications antenna Monday at CFB Valcartier. He was evacuated to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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• Edmonton plow operator charged with drunk driving
  Posted Jan. 18, 2011 A grader operator charged with drunk driving after motorists spotted a plow driving erratically has prompted the city to review how it hires contractors.
  
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• Medevac plane skids off Edmonton runway
  Posted Jan.17 2011 Five people escaped serious injury when a medevac flight from Slave Lake, Alta., skidded off the runway while trying to land at Edmonton's City Centre Airport at Sunday night. One person on board the plane suffered minor injuries while the other four were not injured.
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• Cop's first medical tests come back negative after needle prick incident
  Posted Jan. 17, 2011 An Ottawa Police cellblock officer who was pricked with a syringe in a mans sweater was relieved to have blood tests come back negative. The other man tested positive for both HIV and hepatitis C.
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• Company Fined $36,100. Following Pinky Finger Amputation
  Posted Jan.14, 2011. Company was fined for failing to ensure that a worker used procedures and for failing to notify the Workplace Safety and Health Division immediately after the incident occurred.
  
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• 1 Killed, 1 Injured Changing a Flat Tire In Ontario
  Posted Jan. 14, 2010 Company sends a pickup truck to help trucker change a flat. Both men were outside on the shoulder of the highway when they were struck by another vehicle.
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• Man Killed As Snowmobile Hits Construction Materials
  Posted Jan.14,2011. Mounties said an adult male victim collided with construction site fence while snowmobiling and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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• WRHA fined $80,000.00 after worker breaks arm
  Posted Jan. 17, 2011 The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has been fined nearly $80,000 after a laundry plant worker was trapped in an industrial washing machine and broke his arm.
  
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• Toromont Industries Ltd. fined $75,000
  Posted Jan.12 2011 The company was fined for failing to provide and maintain a workplace, necessary equipment, systems and tools that were safe and without risk to health by failing to provide a worker with tire chocks.
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• A very tragic day’: Toronto police officer killed by stolen snowplow
  Posted Jan. 12, 2011 A Toronto police officer has died after being hit by a stolen snowplow.
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• Horizon Oil Sands site in Canada shut down after blast
  Posted Jan 11, 2011 An explosion and fire at the Horizon Oil Sands facility in Canada's Alberta province has injured four workers and forced the site to suspend operations.
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• Alberta oilsands blast injures four
  Posted Jan.7 2011 Four people were injured in a fire Thursday at Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. Horizon Oil Sands site north of Fort McMurray, Alta.
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• N.B. teen Wal-Mart employee dies at work while handling extension cord
  Posted Jan.7 2011 An investigation is underway into the death of a teenager at a Wal-Mart store in Grand Falls, N.B.
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• Cab driver dies of injuries from crash
  Posted Jan.6 2011 A 57-year-old Winnipeg cab driver injured in a crash on Monday morning has died.
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• Sex taunts, death threats, jailbreaks all challenges facing jailhouse nurses
  Posted Jan.6 2011, Sexual taunts, death threats and the very real possibility a patient is feigning illness to make a jailbreak attempt are just some of the daily struggles facing Canada's jailhouse nurses.
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• COSH Names Top 10 Workplace Tragedies for 2010
  Posted Jan.6, 2011 The year 2010 was a bad one for workers:
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• September 30/10 MB Company AGP Management Inc. (Contractor) fined $36,505
  Posted Jan.4, 2011 For failing to ensure that Marv Kornelsen Construction Ltd, provided the necessary fall protection systems.
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• September 30/10 MB Company Marv Kornelsen Construction Ltd. fined $42,050
  Posted Jan.4 2011 A worker suffered spinal cord injuries when he lost his footing and fell approximately 25 feet from a roof to the ground. The company was fined for failing to provide necessary fall protection systems.
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• September 30/10 Manitoba Company Dreamcraft Carpentry fined $30,000
  Posted Jan.4, 2010 A worker fell through an open stairwell and suffered multiple injuries. The company was fined for failing to ensure that a worker used procedures, in the course of sheeting a deck, that minimized risk to safety.
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• Snowmobiler injured after plunging 30 meters down mine shaft
  Posted Jan.4, 2011
  Ken Gadicke rounded a corner on his snowmobile and drove over an icy ridge partly covering an abandoned mine shaft.
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• Pilot killed in crash near Boissevain
  Posted Jan.4 2011 A pilot is dead after his small plane crashed Wednesday afternoon in fog near Boissevain.
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• Imasar Engineering Inc. Fined $80,000 after worker injured
  Posted Jan.4, 2011 Concord-based company offering consulting engineering services in workplace safety, was fined $80,000 on December 20, 2010, for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.
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• FIrefighters rescue woman burried in trench collapse
  Posted Dec.22, 2010
  Ottawa firefighters were called to a Greenbank Road construction site on Monday afternoon after a female construction worker was trapped by clay mud when the walls of a trench collapsed, burying her to her waist.
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• Car dealership employees fired for Facebook posts
  Posted Dec.22, 2010 Add Canada to the list of places where Facebook can be hazardous to your employment status.
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• Cadbury Adams Canada Inc. Fined $55,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted Dec.22, 2010 Cadbury Adams Canada Inc., a candy manufacturer, was fined $55,000 on December 16, 2010, for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that caused a worker to be injured.
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• Report into Ontario scaffolding deaths urges big changes to workplace safety
  Posted Dec.17th 2010 TORONTO - Ontario will name a new health and safety czar within the Ministry of Labour to prevent workplace accidents like the one that claimed the lives of four immigrant workers who plunged to their deaths from a Toronto highrise last Christmas Eve.
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• 6 in hospital after serious carbon monoxide leak
  Posted Dec. 15, 2010 Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a carbon monoxide leak this morning that sent six people - including two paramedics - to hospital.
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• Safe Farm Check Workshops
  Posted Dec.15,2010 The first in a series of farm safety workshops administered by Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health, Keystone Agricultural Producers and Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives is happening today.
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• One worker dead, one seriously injured in seperate construction accidents
  Posted Dec.14, 2010 One worker is dead and another clinging to life after two separate construction accidents in downtown Vancouver Thursday morning.
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• Snow strands hundreds in Ontario
  Posted Dec.14,2010 As hundreds of motorists in southwestern Ontario sit tight awaiting rescue after snow squalls made roads impassible and sparked a state of emergency, police in New Brunswick are warning residents there to take precautions against flooding.
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• Bonnyville firefighters walk over safety concerns
  Posted Nov.10, 2010 Workplace inspectors are in Bonnyville, Alta. Thursday investigating concerns of volunteer firefighters over the safety of their equipment.
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• EMS worker killed in collision by run away trailer
  Posted Dec.7 2010,
  An Emergency Services worker killed in a collision in northern Alberta Monday has been identified as John O’Mahoney.
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• Water tank explosion at Labrador construction site claims life of worker
  Posted Dec.6, 2010 RCMP in Labrador say a man is dead after an explosion at a construction site.
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• 2 men electrocuted in southeast Edmonton
  Posted Dec.3, 2010
  Two men died after they were electrocuted in what appears to be a farm accident in the area of Ellerslie Road and Meridian Street.
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• Worker dies after falling at Syncrude oilsands project in northeastern Alberta
  Posted Dec.3,2010 Alberta safety officers are investigating the death of a worker who fell at Syncrude Canada's Mildred Lake oilsands project.
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• EFCO Canada Co. and engineer fined $135,000 total after workers injured
  Posted Dec.2 2010 EFCO Canada Co., a supplier of steel form products and services, was fined $125,000 on November 26, 2010, for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Ac.
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• Canada's Safety Employers
  Posted Nov.30, 2010 Click and nominate a deserving business for this award.
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• Paving company owner fined $33.5K for death of teen
  Posted Nov.29, 2010 A Manitoba business owner has been fined $33,500 for numerous workplace and safety violations which contributed to the death of a 15-year-old boy who was buried in burning asphalt.
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• Chemistry prof fined for deadly lab blast
  Posted Nov.29, 2010 A professor at a chemistry college in France was fined 8,000 euros and given a suspended jail sentence, for causing a lab explosion that killed a colleague and gravely injured a student.
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• Manitobans asked about cap-and-trade
  Posted Nov.29th 2010,
  The Manitoba government has launched a website to gather input on proposed cap-and-trade laws aimed at reducing harmful emissions from polluting industries.
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• Sept 30, 2010 MB $30,000 FINE
  Posted Nov.26, 2010 Sept 30, 2010 $30,000 FINE to Dreamcraft Carpentry for failing to ensure that a worker used procedures, in the course of sheeting a deck, that minimized risk to safety. A worker suffered multiple injuries when he fell through an open stairwell.
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• Sept 30, 2010 MB $42,050 FINE
  Posted Nov.26, 2010 Sept 30, 2010 $42,050 FINE to Marv Kornelsen Construction Ltd. (Sub Contractor) for failing to provide necessary fall protection systems. A worker suffered spinal cord injuries when he lost his footing and fell approx 25 feet from a roof to the ground. Note: Contractor and Sub Contractor were fined
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• Sept 30, 2010 $36,505 FINE
  Nov.26th 2010 Sept 30, 2010 $36,505 FINE to AGP Management Inc. (Contractor) for failing to ensure that Marv Kornelsen Construction Ltd. provided the necessary fall protection systems.
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• New farm safety council to review worker protection
  Posted Nov. 25, 2010
  The Alberta government announced on Tuesday the creation of a new farm safety advisory council.
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• Welland company fined $80,000
  Posted Nov.25, 2010 A Welland company has been fined $80,000 for a workplace safety violation that left one of its workers seriously injured.
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• Group of Canada Post workers refuse to deliver mail over concerns
  Posted Nov.24, 2010. For the second day in a row, a group of Canada Post workers refused to deliver mail over concerns on Tuesday.
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• Injured worker lies in coma
  Posted Nov.24th 2010.
  Adrienne Gross sits silently for hours in the Royal Alexandra Hospital's intensive-care unit, holding her husband's hand as a machine keeps him breathing while he lies in a medically induced coma.
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• Sick 9/11 workers agree to $712M settlement
  Posted Nov.23 2010 More than 10,000 workers suffering health problems stemming from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center have agreed to a $712 million settlement with New York City.
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• Woman seriously injured after truck hit by train
  Posted Nov.23,2010 A flag person is no doubt regretting her decision to leave a flag truck on the train tracks in Langley, B.C.
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• Sick leave costs city of Saskatoon $6.4M
  Posted Nov.23,2010 City workers called in sick an average of 9.3 days in 2009, a cost to taxpayers of more than $6.4 million, a city report says.
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• Olympic Plastic Bags (1983) Ltd. Fined $85,000 After Worker Killed
  Posted Nov.23, 2010. Olympic Plastic Bags (1983) Ltd., a plastic bag manufacturer, was fined $85,000 yesterday for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that caused a worker's death.
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• Business owner pleads guilty in asphalt death
  Posted Nov.19,2010 A Manitoba business owner has pleaded guilty to numerous workplace and safety violations - following the death of a 15-year-old boy who was buried in burning asphalt.
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• Edmonton worker crushed to death
  Posted Nov.19th 2010 Alberta OH&S is investigating the death of a young construction worker who was crushed by a pipe on the job Wednesday.
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• Radiation exposure a workplace reality for construction industry: Expert
  Posted Nov.16, 2010 Exposure to radiation and radioactive materials is a reality for construction workers and not just specific to the nuclear industry, says a radiation expert.
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• Prison staff protest lack of attention to health and safety concerns
  Posted Nov.15, 2010 Workers at a Manitoba prison faced with overcrowding and scabies outbreak.
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• Man, 22, dies in industrial mishap in Sheerwood Park Alberta
  Posted Nov.15 2010 A 22-year-old Vancouver man is dead after an industrial accident in Sheerwood Park.
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• Lone Worker device latest in electronic protection
  Posted Nov.15 2010 The latest device from Rogers Communications, called the Lone Worker, is designed to give you and your employer some peace of mind.
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• Via Rail staff broke chemical procurement rules: documents
  Posted Nov.12, 2010 Via Rail employees have been buying domestic cleaners and lubricants for use in their operations, a violation of the Crown corporation's rules about using chemicals.
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• Rig worker dies in workplace accident near Fort McMurray
  Posted Nov.12 2010 EDMONTON — A man is dead after a workplace accident in the Fort McMurray area on Tuesday.
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• Alberta adds measures to improve workplace safety, support grieving families
  Posted Nov.12 2010 The Alberta government has announced a number of actions to strengthen its workplace safety rules and regulations.
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• Doctors ignoring fatigue: expert
  Posted Nov.9 2010 To preserve their health, doctors must remember - they are human.
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• Employer blamed for fatal quarry fall
  Posted Nov.9 2010 The Quebec Worker Health and Safety Commission (CSST) has ruled that the dynamiting company DNX Castonguay is to blame for the death of a drill worker last Spring.
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• Dauphin farmer, 66, left dead after being pinned by tractor
  Posted Nov.8 2010 Manitoba's workplace safety and health division is investigating the latest farm death in the province.
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• 'Non-Toxic' Scented Products Emit Toxic Chemicals
  Posted Nov.8 2010 Even when labeled "natural" or "non-toxic," scented products emit toxic chemicals that rarely appear on labels
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• Farmer Killed in Accident
  Posted Nov 4, 2010 RCMP reported that a man was found pinned between a farm tractor and a trailer.
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• Safety of Winnipeg garbage trucks questioned
  Posted Nov.2,2010 A review of provincial safety records of garbage trucks used by the City of Winnipeg's main contractor is revealing troubling questions about the condition of the vehicles.
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• Manhole misstep leaves worker in hospital
  Posted Nov.2,2010 A Calgary construction worker is in hospital after falling two to three metres down a concrete manhole.
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• Labour rights foundation formed
  Posted Nov.2,2010 The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) has established the Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights (CFLR), dedicated to promoting, protecting and strengthening the rights of Canadian workers.
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• Worker seriously injured after falling down ventilation shaft
  Posted Nov.2, 2010 A worker was seriously injured on October 26 after he fell about six metres down a ventilation shaft at a 26-storey condominium tower under construction in Burnaby, British Columbia.
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• Ottawa delays release of promised policies for towing sealing vessels
  Posted Nov.2, 2010 The coast guard is promising to have new towing rules in place by December as part of its effort to avoid another fatal accident among seal hunters operating from Iles-de-la-Madeleine.
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• Family's dog dies after falling into hole at construction site
  Posted Nov.1, 2010 Conflicting views are surfacing over who is responsible for the death of a family's dog that drowned after it fell into a hole at a construction site.
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• Jeld-Wen fined after worker injured
  Posted Oct.28, 2010 Jeld-Wen of Canada Ltd., a Toronto window and door manufacturer, has been fined $50,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that caused an injury to a worker.
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• Workplace safety agency says it is investigating death of Notre Dame student
  Posted Oct.28,2010 SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Indiana's workplace safety agency said Thursday it was investigating the death of a Notre Dame student who was videotaping football practice when the tower he was in fell over.
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• Work stopped at eastern Ontario farm after worker found dead in grain silo
  Posted Oct.28,2010 All work has stopped at an eastern Ontario farm after a worker was found dead inside a grain silo.
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• Plane carrying 10 people crashes in northern Alberta, killing one and injuring four
  Posted Oct.26,2010 One person was killed and four others were seriously injured Monday when a plane carrying oil industry workers crash-landed in the muskeg of remote northeastern Alberta.
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• Three Alberta workers fatally injured over three-day period
  Posted Oct.26, 2010 An Alberta employee has died after suffering serious head injuries at an oilfield site, the third workplace fatality in the province in as many days.
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• Manitoba moves to protect workers from mental harassment
  Posted Oct.25, 2010 The Manitoba government is moving to protect workers from mental harassment.
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• Two paramedics killed when ambulance plunges into BC lake
  Posted Oct.25 2010 An ambulance making an early-morning trip down a steep highway skidded off the road and plunged into a lake, killing the two paramedics on board Tuesday.
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• Fatality a reminder to slow down
  Posted Oct.21 2010 Monday’s tragic death of a road construction worker on a Manitoba highway confirmed an industry’s worst fears.
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• Road worker hit by car, dies
  Posted Oct.19,2010 A road construction worker has died after being struck by a car on a highway east of Winnipeg on Monday afternoon.
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• Saskatoon worker's death at Vanscoy potash operation was perventable
  Posted Oct.18, 2010 The death of a Saskatoon man at Agrium Inc.'s Vanscoy potash operation earlier this year could have been prevented, a provincial report into the fatality shows.
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• Three workplace fatalities in three days
  Oct.18, 2010 The latest incident occurred in Bonnyville around 9 a.m. on Saturday when a man from Bearing Oilfield Services Ltd. was moving oilfield pipeline into the yard of Tuboscope Canada.
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• Workplace death blamed on government
  Posted Oct.18, 2010 Federal health and safety officers are recommending a string of charges against their own employer — the Canadian government.
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• Worker dies at CFB Edmonton
  Posted Oct.18 2010 A construction worker has died on a project at CFB Edmonton
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• Chilean mine safety under scrutiny
  Posted Oct.15 2010 Chile's president says the mine that trapped 33 workers will close forever, and is vowing to create safer conditions for those in the country's biggest industry.
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• Criminal charges laid in Toronto scaffolding collapse that killed four workers
  Posted Oct. 15, 2010 The owner of a Toronto construction company and two others charged in a deadly scaffolding collapse in Toronto last Christmas Eve have each been released on $10,000 bail.
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• Court fines Essar $375,000 in worker’s death
  Posted Oct.13 2010 Sault Ste. Marie-based steelmaker pleads guilty to breaching health and safety act in 2008 fatality.
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• Chile mine rescue: 11 hauled to safety
  Posted Oct 13 2010
  Rescue crews in Chile have lifted 11 of the 33 miners who languished in a mine for more than two months to the surface, where they were greeted by cheers and embraces from family, rescue workers and the country's president.
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• Prairie provinces embark on prevention initiatives
  Posted Oct.12, 2010 Manitoba and Saskatchewan have the highest workplace injury rates in Canada and have shared that dubious distinction for years. And those lost-time injury statistics do not include the agriculture sector, where 1,769 workers were killed between 1990 and 2005, according to the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association.
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• Employers may be legally on the hook for mental injury
  Posted Oct. 12 2010 A new report from the Calgary-based Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) suggests that employers who neglect psychological safety in the workplace could be legally liable for mental injury inflicted on workers.
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• Firefighter sent to hospital when blaze destroys new $1-million Winnipeg home
  Posted Oct. 12, 2010 A firefighter suffered smoke inhalation while battling an overnight blaze that destroyed a $1-million home under construction in Winnipeg.
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• JGB Developments Inc. Fined $30,000 for Safety Violation
  Posted Oct.7,2010 St. Catharines, ON. - JGB Developments Inc., carrying on business as JGB Roofing, of St. Catharines, was fined $30,000 on September 17 for violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
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• Construction Company Fined $150,000 After Worker Killed
  Posted Oct.6, 2010 Maple Leaf Structural Limited, now operating as Structform International Limited, of Toronto, was fined $150,000 on October 4, 2010, for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that caused a worker's death.
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• 7 Ways to Work Yourself to Death
  Posted Oct. 5 2010 Just as work can enrich our lives, in many ways it can shorten them -- a fact that cuts across socioeconomic levels, ages and nationalities.
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• Workplace can hinder ability to lead healthy lifestyle: poll
  Posted Oct. 5, 2010 An international survey has found that 32 per cent of responding workers feel that their workplace hinders their ability to lead a healthy lifestyle, a statistic that Canadian observers believe is equally applicable here at home.
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• Fumes sicken two workers; Burlington, Ont., mall partially evacuated
  Posted Oct.5, 2010 There was a bit of a scare Monday afternoon at a mall in Burlington, Ont
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• Weight, heat and an optical illusion may have been factors in deadly B.C. crash
  Posted Oct. 4, 2010 Too much weight, a hot day and a well-known optical illusion may have all been factors in a small plane crash that killed four men on British Columbia's Apex Mountain.
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• Alberta makes good on its promise to post employer safety records online
  Posted on Oct.4 2010 Alberta has made good its promise to post the safety records of companies online but won't earmark which employers have bad records of worksite fatalities and injuries.
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• B.C. trucker says hauling days over after brutal roadside assault
  Posted Sept. 29, 2010 A veteran trucker in B.C who was badly beaten and left for dead on the side of the Yellowhead Highway after trying to be a Good Samaritan says his hauling days are over.
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• Worker awarded $8,000 in sexual harassment case
  Posted Sept.28,2010 The BC Human Rights Tribunal awarded a worker nearly $8,000 after finding that complaints of sexual harassment from a co-worker played a role in her termination.
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• Part of a Montreal building collapses; one person killed, one injured
  Posted Sept.28, 2010 The creaking sound of a collapsing building was enough to send six workers scrambling for their lives.
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• Investigators eye unused parachute during probe of fatal Alberta plane crash
  Posted Sept. 27, 2010 The Transportation Safety Board says human or mechanical error will be examined after ruling out weather as a factor in an Alberta plane crash that left three people dead.
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• Cherubini gets stop-work order
  Posted Sept. 24, 2010 The Labour Department issued several orders, including a stop work order, to Cherubini Metal Works in Dartmouth on Thursday after a man was hurt on the job.
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• Alta. Chinese workers death case delayed
  Posted Sept. 24th,2010 Alberta says the complexity of dealing with a Chinese state-owned corporation is behind the long delay in prosecuting companies charged in the deaths of two oilsands workers.
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• Sask. farmer fined in contractor employee's death
  Sept. 24,2010 A southern Saskatchewan farmer has been fined over the electrocution death of a concrete company employee working on his property.
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• Pilot's decision to fly through bad weather blamed for deadly B.C. crash
  Pilot bravado, poor weather and pressure from the customer became the deadly mix of circumstances that led to a plane crashing into an island off B.C.'s coast, killing seven people, the Transportation Safety Board says.
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• Occupational Health And Safety Convictions More Than Double Last Year's Number
  Posted Sept.22, 2010 The number of OHS convictions has now increased to 25 in 2010-11, compared to a total of 11 in the previous year. Also, 42 prosecutions have been initiated this year, 10 more than all of 2009-10. OHS convictions and acquittals are published online at www.lrws.gov.sk.ca.
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• TSB highlights design flaws at BC railroad crossing
  Posted Sept.22, 2010 Outdated design criteria at a public railroad crossing in British Columbia contributed to a fatal collision between a vehicle and a passenger train last year, says a recent report from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB).
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• Hydro worker killed while trying to restore power as storm rakes central Ontario
  Posted Sept. 22,2010 A hydro worker has died in Port Elgin, Ont., while working to restore power after severe thunderstorms swept through southern and central Ontario Tuesday night.
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• Girl trapped in farm equipment
  Posted Sept 20 2010 A 14-year-old girl is in a Manitoba hospital after she became trapped in a piece of farm equipment Saturday night.
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• Workplace safety penalties too weak
  Posted Sept 20 2010 A young man who witnessed the death of a friend 18 months ago says the penalties for employers who violate safety rules should be much higher. September 20,2010
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• Farmer, 82 trapped for 20 hours
  Posted Sept 20 2010 An elderly farmer remained in intensive care last night after being trapped upside down for more than 20 hours in a combine. Posted Sept. 20, 2010
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• Scaffold star held
  Posted Sept 17 2010 A man who climbed onto the roof of the WCB's downtown Winnipeg headquarters Thursday afternoon caused quite the scene.
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• Dangling concrete truck 'hard to fathom'
  Posted Sept 15 2010 A concrete pumper truck was suspended in the air over a Beltline street after tipping over early Tuesday morning.
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• BP blasted over safety training ‘failure’
  Posted Sept 15 2010 ABERDEEN-BASED oil giant BP has been blasted for failing to provide basic safety training for workers.
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• N.S. pharmaceutical worker fatality heading to trial
  Posted Sept 15 2010 A drug manufacturer has pleaded not guilty to five charges in the death of a lab technician who allegedly handled a chemical in a Nova Scotia plant.
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• N.S. auto dealer pleads guilty in body shop explosion that killed employee
  Sept 13 2010 A Nova Scotia car dealership has pleaded guilty to one safety charge stemming from an explosion and fire at a body shop that killed a worker.
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• Gas line rupture in Emerson
  Posted Sept 13 2010 Several buildings, including a school, were evacuated after a gas line was ruptured in Emerson on Monday.
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• Ministry probing deaths of two migrant workers at Ontario farm
  Posted Sept 12 2010 The deaths of two migrants workers from Jamaica who died at a farm south of Owen Sound is now under investigation.
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• Ajax company fined for young worker's Injury
  Posted Sept 8 2010 WHITBY- The owners of an Ajax plant have been fined $50,000 for an accident that left a young worker permanently disabled.
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• Traugott Building Contractors Inc. fined $80,000 after worker injured
  Posted Sept 8 2010 Traugott Building Contractors Inc. a Cambridge-based company, was for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that caused an injury to a worker.
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• Fertilizer warehouse fire releases toxic fumes
  Posted Sept 8 2010 Firefighters and officials are on the scene after a fire destroyed a herbicide and fertilizer plant in Lévis.
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• B.C. workers win millions in severance
  Posted Sept 8 2010 B.C.'s Labour Relations Board has upheld a ruling that will see close to 200 people receive millions of dollars in severance pay.
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• Canadian Natural Resources, subcontractor charged in 2008 oilsands drowning
  Posted Sept 8 2010 Workplace safety charges have been filed against petroleum producer Canadian Natural Resources and one of its subcontractors in the oilsands death.
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• 8 Surrey workers sickened by mystery gas
  Posted Sept 7 2010 A recycling plant in Surrey, B.C., is in lockdown after an unknown gas suddenly filled the facility early Monday.
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• Ottawa building evacuated after fluorine spill
  Posted Sept 7 2010 Two people are in hospital after a building that is home to Natural Resources Canada was evacuated.
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• Regina roofing company fined
  Posted Sept 7 2010 Saskatchewan's Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety has charged another company with a fall protection-related contravention.
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• One worker fatally injured after B.C. crane accident
  Posted Sept 7 2010 One worker was killed and two others injured after a crane accident at a residential construction site in Burnaby.
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• Charges laid in oilsands tailings pond drowning
  Posted Sept 3 2010 One of Canada's largest petroleum producers and a small construction firm face new charges related to workplace safety.
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• New charges laid in ‘buried alive’ case
  Posted Sept 3 2010 2 years after a 15-year-old boy’s horrific workplace death, the owner of the Manitoba paving company who employed him has been hit with more than 2 dozen more charges.
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• Oil rig blast forces 13 workers into Gulf of Mexico
  Posted Sept 2 2010 An explosion ripped through an oil rig on Thursday forcing 13 people into the water, one of whom was injured, the US Coast Guard said.
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• Work Accident Kills Man
  Posted Aug 31 2010 32-year-old Saskatchewan man is dead following a workplace accident at an oil drilling site near Virden.
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• Winnipeg FireFighters Injured
  Posted Aug 31 2010 Two firefighters are recovering from their injuries following a blaze at an apartment building complex in downtown Winnipeg.
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• Charges laid after three workers die, two are hurt at B.C. mushroom farm
  Posted Aug 30 2010 The operators of a mushroom farm near Vancouver were charged Monday with a series of offences.
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• Workplace accident victim 'just a kind-hearted person'
  Posted Aug 28 2010 Patrick Doucette fell about six metres while descending a ladder at a home at Allendale Ave. in Niagara Falls.
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• Man dies at Factory in Burlington
  Posted Aug 28 2010 A man has died after being pinned under an almost 5,900-kilogram (13,000-pound) steel coil.
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• Crews respond to hazardous material call at Canada Post
  Posted Aug 27 2010 Wpg police free up room for emergency vehicles after a report of possible hazardous materials.
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• Electric shock injures couple after crash
  Posted July 16 2010 NANTON, A man and a woman suffered serious injuries after she tried pull him from his truck after it crashed into an electrical pole.
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• Fall kills contractor
  Posted Aug 26 2010 A 58-year-old man died in a workplace fall near Carman on Tuesday morning, RCMP say.
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• Workplace safety violations can't just be speeding tickets
  Posted Aug 24 2010 Something is wrong with the citation system if companies with unsafe practices don't get penalized until after a disaster.
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• Team of Heroes
  Posted Aug 25 2010 A teenage boy was pulled to safety in a dramatic water rescue after he jumped into the Red River.
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• Trucking company & fellow worker face safety charges
  Posted Aug 24 2010 An Alberta trucking company and a worker have been charged with workplace safety violations in the death of a young man.
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• Chile's trapped miners could be stuck until Christmas
  Posted Aug 23 2010 Thirty-three miners trapped underground for the past 17 days are alive,rescue workers may not be able to reach them before Christmas.
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• Dangling Worker Rescued From Roof
  Posted Aug 18 2010 Nova Scotia, A Canadian man is recovering after a work site accident that left him hanging four stories above the ground.
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• After toddler death, Calgary Construction Association issues safety guide
  Posted Aug 18 2010 A guide to help ensure the safety of workers and the public on or near highrise construction sites in Calgary has been produced.
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• Train derails near Fort Saskatchewan
  Posted Aug 18 2010 43 cars went off the rails in Alberta early Wednesday morning.
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• RCMP probe death at workplace in Wetaskiwin
  Posted Aug 18 2010 RCMP and Occupational Health and Safety are investigating an apparent carbon monoxide poisoning at a Wetaskiwin workplace.
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• Calgary worker fired after YouTube tool toss
  Posted Aug 13 2010 A construction worker has lost his job after tossing a clamp while perched on scaffolding metres above street level.
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• Diesel spilled in Toronto river
  Posted Aug 16 2010 Toronto fire crews worked through the night to stop a massive diesel spill from flowing into Lake Ontario.
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• Maple Leaf Consumer Foods Inc. Fined $100,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted Aug 13 2010 Maple Leaf Consumer Foods Inc.,of Kitchener, was fined yesterday for a violation under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
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• Charges laid against two companies for accident that killed four workers
  Posted Aug 16 2010 A horrifying accident at an apartment building that sent five men plunging 13 storeys,has resulted in several dozen charges.
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• Colony farmer killed in feed mixer accident
  Posted Aug 13 2010 A farming accident at a Hutterite colony in the R.M. of South Norfolk has claimed the life of a 32-year-old man.
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• Man beaten during robbery
  Posted Aug 12 2010 An employee was beaten and bound during a violent robbery at a western Manitoba hotel early Thursday.
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• Better protection for cabbies planned
  Posted Aug 11 2010 In the wake of a dangerous week for taxi drivers, the MB Taxicab Board has announced it’s taking steps to improve safety.
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• Four workers injured by falling bricks
  Posted Aug 11 2010 Construction workers were injured by a collapsing wall at a Montreal elementary school.
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• B.C. forestry crew 'felt like prisoners'
  Posted Aug 10 2010 Workers on a government contract were found to be living and working in unsafe and primitive conditions.
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• Construction metal hits SUV downtown
  Posted Aug 10 2010 A piece of metal fell from a downtown Calgary construction site onto a woman's SUV as she drove past.
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• Grandeur Housing Fined $42,050
  Posted July 15 2010 The company was fined for failing to conduct a job hazard analysis for the use of the table saw.
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• St. Boniface Pallet Company Fined $42,100
  Posted July 15 2010 The company was fined for failing to ensure that a worker used Safe Work Procedures.
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• Charges laid in volunteer firefighter death
  Posted Aug 10 2010 The Ministry of Labour has laid 11 charges in connection with the death of a volunteer fire fighter near Sarnia, Ont.
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• Construction worker killed under steel beam
  Posted Aug 9 2010 TORONTO, A worker was killed after a beam fell on top of him at a Vaughan, Ont. building still under construction.
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• Northbound Pembina re-opens
  Posted Aug 9 2010 A section of Pembina Highway has reopened after a dump truck collided with the Jubilee Overpass.
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• Man Falls Down Open Elevator Shaft
  Posted Aug 6 2010 The Winnipeg Fire-Paramedic Service was called to the Manitoba Legislature after a man fell one storey down an elevator shaft.
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• Clerk hit with hammer during robbery
  Posted Aug 6 2010 WINNIPEG, Two front clerks at the Nor-Villa Motor Hotel were smacked by a hammer-wielding assailant early this morning during a robbery.
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• Man killed at Laval metal yard
  Posted Aug 5 2010 MONTREAL, A 42-year-old man was killed in a workplace accident Thursday morning at Lallemand Métal Inc.
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• $16.6 Million in Fines After Fatal Blast at a Connecticut Plant
  Posted Aug 5 2010 Federal safety officials issued fines in connection with a huge explosion at a power plant that killed six workers.
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• Natural gas explosion injures 1 in Maidstone
  Posted Aug 4 2010 A man is being treated in hospital for injuries following an explosion of natural gas at a commercial building.
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• Chemical spill closes Kelowna beaches
  Posted Aug 4 2010 Toxic chemicals discharged during a fire at an agricultural supply warehouse on the weekend have shut down two popular beaches.
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• Roofing Firms Face Safety Scrutiny
  Posted Aug 4 2010 Roofing companies in Saskatchewan that fail to implement safety procedures face fines.
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• Three workers hurt in balcony collapse
  Posted Aug 4 2010 MONTREAL, Three construction workers suffered minor injuries when a third-floor balcony gave way.
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• At least 5 people hurt after B.C. ferry hits dock
  Posted Aug 4 2010 B.C.'s Queen of Nanaimo ferry collided with a dock while coming into harbour early Tuesday morning.
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• Gulf oil well plugged by drilling mud: BP
  Posted Aug 4 2010 BP says it has successfully pumped heavy drilling mud into its blown-out oil well.
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• Workplace Shooting
  Posted Aug 3 2010 Nine people were killed on Tuesday in a shooting rampage at a beer distributor in Manchester, Connecticut.
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• Officials confirm no ammonia leak from derailed train cars north of Calgary
  Posted Aug 3 2010 AIRDRIE, Alta.Nearly a dozen people were evacuated as a precaution after a train carrying anhydrous ammonia derailed.
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• Teen with 'heart of gold' dies in Boat Mishap
  Posted Aug 3 2010 A Portage la Prairie teen died Saturday after he fell off a pontoon boat in the Whitemud River.
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• Banff ski resort cleared in worker's death
  Posted July 29 2010 Sunshine Village is not at fault for the accidental death of one of its ski resort workers in 2004.
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• Equipment dealer faces four charges after worker's death
  Posted Aug 3 2010 An Edmonton-based equipment dealer has been charged with four counts under Alberta's occupational health and safety legislation.
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• WorkSafeBC Rules don't Apply to Crane Mishap
  Posted July 29, 2010 WorkSafeBC says it has limited jurisdiction over a Victoria construction site where a crane operator was impaled.
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• Crop dusters collide
  Posted July 30, 2010 Two crop dusters collided Wednesday night at the Rosetown airport.
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• Chopper crashes while fighting B.C. wildfire
  July 29, 2010 Two pilots are recovering after their helicopter crashed while fighting a wildfire in BC's southern interior.
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• Escape artist injured in stunt
  Posted July 28, 2010 Manitoban,Dean Gunnarson survived a very close call with a speeding rollercoaster during a performance in China Tuesday.
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• Corydon bar employee charged in man's death
  Posted July 29, 2010 A 26-year-old man has been charged in connection with a Corydon-area assault that led to the death of a 33-year-old man.
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• Man impaled on metal rod after Victoria crane overturns
  Posted July 27 2010 A crane operator was impaled on a metal rod when the machine rolled upside down into an excavated pit.
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• Teen charged after texting while bicycling
  Posted July 27 2010 Owen Sound, Ont. You've heard about the dangers of texting behind the wheel, here's a case of texting behind the handlebars.
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• Asbestos found at Winnipeg demolition site
  Posted July 27 2010 A demolition company connected to a July 13 asbestos scare has been ordered to halt all demo work until it can prove it has safe work procedures in place.
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• Man crushed to death in New York office building's trash compactor
  Posted July 25 2010 A janitor at a prominent western New York office building was crushed to death after falling into a trash compactor.
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• Pilot escapes fiery CF-18 crash
  Posted July 26 2010 Lethbridge,A training run for a weekend air show in southern Alberta went horribly awry Friday when a CF-18 Hornet jet crashed and exploded in a ball of flame.
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• Bubbly beer blasts Vernon, B.C., brewery; gives new meaning to heady brew
  Posted July 23 2010 The Okanagan Springs brewery is cleaning up after its latest batch of cream beer became a cream bomb, blowing apart the fermenting vat.
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• Tropical Storm Bonnie puts BP spill efforts on hold
  Posted July 23 2010 Engineers prepared to abandon their vigil over BP's broken oil well Friday as ships and rig workers evacuated the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Tropical Storm Bonnie.
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• Admiral Welding & Mfg. Inc. Fined $40,000 After Student Injured
  Posted July 23 2010 Admiral Welding & Mfg. Inc.,was fined $40,000 on July 16, 2010, for violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a co-op student was injured.
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• Inmates at Manitoba prison cause disturbance over double bunking
  Posted July 23 2010 A brief riot at Stony Mountain prison north of Winnipeg was quickly quelled Thursday by officers from the institution's emergency response team.
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• Ontario workers fined for their part in health and safety violations
  Posted July 22 2010 Two recent Ontario court decisions show employees have a duty to keep things safe at work and follow government requirements just as employers do.
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• Rigger acquitted of manslaughter in 2008 NYC construction crane collapse that killed 7
  Posted July 22 2010 NEW YORK, N.Y. - A crane rigger was acquitted Thursday of manslaughter charges stemming from the collapse of a New York City crane in 2008.
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• Semi-tanker spills diesel oil in rollover near Highway 10 and Highway 2
  Posted Jul 21 2010 A semi-tanker hauling diesel oil was involved in a rollover Wednesday on Highway 10 near Highway 2, south of Brandon.
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• Man injured during home construction work
  Posted July 16 2010 A man was rushed to hospital Friday morning after falling into a pit at the site of a home under construction in Saint James.
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• Two Companies And Supervisor Fined $116,000 For Health And Safety Violation
  Posted July 16 2010 Cornwall, Ont. Two companies were fined $60,000 and $50,000 respectively for violations of the OHS Act that caused injuries to a worker.
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• Metro Ontario Inc. Fined $100,000 After Worker Injured
  Posted July 13 2010 The grocery store operator Metro Ontario Inc. was fined $100,000 on July 9, 2010, for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that caused an injury to a worker.
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• CN Files $2M lawsuit over derailment
  Posted July 10 2010, EDMONTON — CN Rail has filed a $2-million lawsuit against two Edmonton men and a construction company after a piece of equipment parked on a track caused a July 10, 2008 derailment.
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• Man. driver cell ban nets $22k on 1st day
  Posted July 15 2010 At the end of business hours Thursday, the first day of enforcement, police had already issued more than 100 tickets.
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• Hang up, Butt out
  Posted July 14 2010 If you don’t keep cellphones and cigarettes out of your hands while driving starting Thursday, you may be reaching for your wallet instead.
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• Knifepoint robbery attempted
  Posted July 14. 2010 Selkirk RCMP are searching for a suspect after an attempted knifepoint robbery at an area gas station.
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• Northwest Ontario paper mill owner-operator fined $125,000
  Posted July 14. 2010 Abitibi Consolidated has been fined $125,000 after three people were injured by an arc flash.
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• Worker Crushed Under Contrete Slab
  Posted July 14.2010 A worker was pinned under a chunk of concrete, weighing about 700 pounds, in a narrow trench.
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• Steinbach man killed in baler incident
  Posted July 10. 2010 A 59 y/o man was pulled into a hay baler and trapped while working alone.
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• Western Scrap Metals fined $42,050
  Posted July 8.2010 The company was fined for failing to ensure that a worker used Safe Work Procedures.
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• Carwash owner gunned down in T.O.
  Posted July 7. 2010 A Scarborough car wash owner died Tuesday about two hours after being gunned down at his workplace.
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• Man crushed beneath vehicle
  Posted July 7.2010 A 45-year-old Winnipeg man was found crushed to death beneath a vehicle he was apparently working on.
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• Texting Woman Guilty in Workers Death
  Posted June 30.2010 An Edmonton woman faces a maximum penalty of a $2,000 fine, six months in jail or both in death of young worker.
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• 19 Workers Killed on AB Government Worksites Since 2003
  Poste June 30.2010 At least 19 workers killed as they repaired our bridges and paved our roads, trimmed our weeds and built our recreation centres.
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• Cellphone use dials up trouble for employers
  Posted June 28, 2010 WINNIPEG The fines drivers will face when caught on a cellphone could be a drop in the bucket compared to the hit their employers might take.
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• New bill makes AEDs mandatory in public places
  Posted June 24, 2010 ONTARIO If passed, Bill 41, The Defibrillator Access Act would be the first of its kind in Canada requiring Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) be installed in public spaces.
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• 2 teens sought after man stabbed during robbery at pawn shop
  Posted June 23, 2010 WINNIPEG A 75-year-old man is in stable condition after being stabbed during a robbery at his Sherbrook Street pawn shop early Tuesday night, police say.
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• Knife used in robbery
  Posted June 23, 2010 WINNIPEG Two males robbed a Winnipeg convenience store at knife point Tuesday morning, police say.
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• Workplace accident under investigation
  Posted June 23, 2010 WINNIPEG Workplace, Safety and Health is investigating a workplace accident Tuesday afternoon in the 1400 block of Chevrier boulevard.
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• Demolition site owner not laying blame
  Posted June 23, 2010 BRITISH COLUMBIA The incident made headlines Friday after two videos on YouTube showed two walls of a building under demolition being knocked onto a city street.
  
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• Worker taken to hospital after fire at NB paper mill
  Posted June 22, 2010 NEW BRUNSWICK Fire investigators are trying to uncover what caused a fire that sent one worker to hospital.
  
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• Mountie killed in crash while looking for drunk driver
  Posted June 22, 2010 ALBERTA Const. Chelsey Alice Robinson died shortly after midnight when her vehicle was broadsided by a semi-trailer near a highway west of Edmonton.
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• Gas leak forces evacuations
  Posted June 22, 2010 WINNIPEG Emergency crews were called to McPhillips and Jarvis Avenue around 2:45 p.m. to fix a ruptured gas main.
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• OxyContin robberies alarm pharmacists
  Posted June 21, 2010 WINNIPEG Mike Olynik became the first Winnipeg pharmacist forced to stare down the barrel of a gun in a string of Oxycontin robberies.
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• Bruce Power to test workers for radiation as precaution
  Posted June 21, 2010 ONTARIO An Ontario power station will test additional workers for exposure to low levels of radiation as a precautionary measure.
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• Six surprisingly dangerous jobs
  Posted June 21, 2010 Any type of job that causes a substantial risk of injury or illness, whether seen immediately or through long-term exposure, can be considered dangerous.
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• Enforcement begins July 15 on cell phone ban for drivers
  Posted June 17, 2010 WINNIPEG The legislation targets people who drive while talking on a hand-held phone or sending a text.
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• Headingley uprising ends without force
  Posted June 17, 2010 HEADINGLY The correctional centre in Headingly was back under full control after 25 inmates ended a disturbance without causing injuries or substantial damage to the prison.
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• Truck hits train, driver lives, no leak of hazardous cargo
  Posted June 17, 2010 RITCHOT A disastrous situation was avoided when a garbage truck crashed into freight train hauling hazardous materials south of Winnipeg.
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• Pharmacy employee assaulted by suspect during armed robbery
  Posted June 17, 2010 In the latest incident, a male walked into a drug store, grabbed a pharmacist by the neck and held a weapon to their throat while demanding OxyContin.
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• Workers injured in fire at Fort McMurray upgrader plant
  Posted June 17, 2010 ALBERTA Five workers were injured Thursday afternoon in a fire at Sycrude's Mildred Lake facility in northern Alberta.
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• BP chooses cost over safety
  Posted June 15, 2010 WASHINGTON 6 days before explosion, BP engineer called Deepwater Horizon a 'nightmare well'
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• Police chase ends at legislature, worker put in danger
  Posted on June 14, 2010 Worker's machine hit as high-speed chase ends with police take-down on Legislature steps.
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• Father and son killed in Ontario cottage accident
  Posted June 14, 2010 ONTARIO A father and son trying to level a cottage are dead after the building fell off of its supports and crushed them.
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• No charges in forklift accident that killed teen at lumber yard
  Posted June 10, 2010 ALBERTA A 16 year-old was on his second shift at a Rona store when he was crushed by a forklift.
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• Agrium investigating accident at potash mine; electrician killed
  Posted June 8, 2010 CALGARY A 59-year-old electrician died on-site reportedly after a metal object struck him on the head.
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• On-job fatigue highest when shifts start at 11 p.m.
  Posted June 8, 2010 TORONTO Study shows delaying the start time for an overnight shift could help workers get more shut-eye off duty and feel less tired on the job.
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• Student shoots fire from gasoline-filled water gun
  Posted June 8, 2010 ONTARIO A school was partially evacuated after an elementary student was seen shooting fire from a gasoline-filled water gun.
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• Teacher, a former Winnipegger, dies trying to help students
  Posted June 8, 2010 A former Winnipeg man has died trying to break up a fight between two of his students.
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• Fine to Ford Canada over $1Million
  Posted June 8, 2010 In addition to the $850,000 fine, a 25% victim fine surcharge of $212,500 was ordered bringing total damages to $1,062,500.
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• Ford faces $850,000 fine
  Posted May 26.2010 Ford Canada is facing a $850,000 fine for violations under the OHS Act, following two separate incidents where two workers were killed.
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• Worker electrocuted after boom truck hits power line
  Posted May 25.2010 An excavating company has been issued a series of orders following a fatal workplace accident in Lyndhurst, Ontario.
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• Woman killed in work parking lot
  Posted May 20.2010 A woman standing outside her Edmonton workplace was killed after a car pulled into a parking stall, failed to stop and pinned her against a wall.
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• Driving instructor killed in crash
  Posted May 20.2010 MONTREAL - Driving instructor killed and 16-year-old student critically injured in a two-vehicle incident in Compton.
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• Teens use bear spay on clerk
  Posted May 20.2010 Two teens have been charged after bear spray was used on a clerk at a convenience store on Mountain Avenue, Wpg.
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• Pizza shop owner killed
  Posted May19. 2010 Edmonton, father of five owned the take-out business for about seven years.
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• Man who lured real estate agent convicted of sex assault
  Posted May 19.2010 A Winnipeg man who claimed he lured a real estate agent to his apartment so he could steal her wallet has been convicted of sexually assault.
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• Piece of building falls on person
  Posted May 14.2010 One person was taken to hospital after getting hit with some falling material.
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• Semi driver killed in Kenora crash
  Posted May 12. 2010 A 47-year-old man from Ontario was killed Tuesday in a fiery crash on Highway 17A near Kenora.
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• Fire causes $1M damage to Elmwood nursery
  Posted May 12. 2010 Officials are investigating after a fire at the Elmwood Community Resource Centre caused more than $1 million in damage.
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• Two companies face fines after proactive officer inspections
  Posted May 12.2010 One company fined for failing to provide fall protection and the other fined for failing to provide adequate supervision.
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• Six volunteer fire fighters injured in blast
  Posted May 12.2010 EDMONTON — Six Firefighters from Edgerton were hospitalized after an explosion during the controlled burn of an abandoned house.
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• Two companies charged after fatal explosion
  Posted May 12.2010 Two Alberta companies and an individual have been charged with sixteen OHS counts following a fatal welding-related explosion two years ago.
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• Crane lifts man to safety after he falls 5.5 metres
  Posted May 6, 2010 - A construction worker was taken to hospital after falling almost 5.5 metres off a wall at a construction. (Toronto, Ont.)
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• Water bomber crashes
  Posted May 6, 2010 - A 62-year-old aerial firefighter has died during a training exercise. (Miramichi, NB.)
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• Municipal worker dies after reservoir fall
  Posted May 6, 2010 - A 57-year-old veteran municipal worker in Montreal died after falling into an empty reservoir on April 22. (Montreal, Que.)
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• Asbestos closes rec centre at ex-N.B. airbase
  Posted May 6, 2010 - A recreation centre at the former CFB Chatham air force base has been closed until further notice due to concerns about exposed asbestos. (Miramichi, N.B.)
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• Safety training saves lives
  Posted May 4, 2010 - Five fishermen who escaped from a burning fishing boat northeast of St. John's early Tuesday credited safety training for saving their lives. (St. Johns, Nfld.)
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• Canadian Tool and Die fined $33,000
  Posted May 4 2010 - A worker's left thumb was crushed and partially amputated after it was caught between the moving parts of a hydraulic press machine. The company was fined for failing to ensure that a worker used procedures which minimized risk to safety in the course of operating a hydraulic press machine. (Manitoba)
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• Construction cams return
  Posted May 3, 2010 - Motorists beware: mobile photo enforcement vehicles are coming to a construction zone near you. (Winnipeg, MB)
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• Hamilton company fined $60,000
  Posted May 3, 2010 - A steel bar manufacturer has been fined $60,000 for a violation under the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured at its factory in Hamilton.
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• Former employee fined for having explosives at work
  Posted Apr. 29, 2010 - Aformer employee of Rona has been fined for having explosives in his locker. (Edmonton, Alb.)
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• Tanker truck explodes while refuelling
  Posted Apr. 29, 2010 - 8 People were injured when a tanker turck exploded at a PetroCanada refinery while it was refuelling. (Montreal, Que.)
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• Cabbie robbed at gunpoint
  Posted Apr. 29, 2010 - An Ottawa taxi driver was robbed at gunpoint in what city cabbies say is a new trick by thieves to avoid vehicle surveillance cameras. (Ottawa, Ont.)
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• Cabbie attacked with machete
  Posted Apr. 29, 2010 - A cab driver received 100 stiches after a teen struck him in the face with a machete. (Prince Albert, Sask.)
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• Alberta workplace deaths down in 2009
  Posted Apr. 29, 2010 - Statistics show a significant drop in workplace deaths in Alberta from 2008 to 2009. (Alb.)
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• Man dies at work on the national day of mourning
  Posted Apr. 29, 2010 - A man fell from the roof of a decommissioned hanger resulting in a fatality on the national day of mourning for workers who have died on the job. (Rivers, Man)
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• Auditor General pushes Alberta to improve worker safety
  Posted Apr. 27, 2010 - A new report by the Auditor General of Alberta suggests that the province needs to drastically improve its approach to worker safety. (Alb.)
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• Fedral government behind in reducing workplace injuries
  Posted Apr. 27, 2010 - A new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows the federal government is behind it's provincial counterparts when it comes to reducing workplace injuries.
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• Chemical spill at University of Toronto
  Posted Apr. 27, 2010 - A building at the University of Toronto was evacuated after a chemical spill. (Toronto, Ont.)
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• Stop work issued at Winnipeg International Airport
  Posted Apr. 21, 2010 - The province ordered a stop work order at the city's new airport terminal amid concerns that unlicensed electricians were on the job. (Winnipeg)
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• Union seeks criminal charges in sawmill death
  Posted Apr. 21, 2010 - The union representing a worker that was killed at a sawmill in 2004 has launched a private prosecution to have criminal negligence charges laid against Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd. (New Westminster, BC)
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• Diesel spill closes Perimeter Highway
  Posted Apr. 15, 2010 - The south Perimeter Highway was closed for a number of hours after a semi spilled diesel fuel on the highway. (Winnipeg)
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• Women tries to run down road worker
  Posted Apr. 14, 2010 - A 19-year-old was arrested in a case of construction rage after she allegedly tried to run down a road worker.(Sarnia, Ont.)
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• Fire at wood business was arson
  Posted Apr. 13 - A massive fire that ripped through a Regina lumber supplier was deliberately set.(Regina)
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• Regina office tower evacuated due to winds
  Posted Apr. 12, 2010 - Heavy winds damaged a section of the SGI building, on the right, leading to an evacuation of the 18-storey tower.(Regina)
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• Hazardous industries on checklist for additional safety inspectors in Manitoba
  Posted Apr. 12, 2010 - The Manitoba government is hiring five additional safety and health officers to help reduce injuries and illness in the workplace.(Manitoba)
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• Manitoba oil spill
  Posted Apr. 8, 2010 - A leak in an Enbridge Oil pipeline has spilled more than 1,500 litres of crude oil into a creek near the town of Virden.
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• Virginia mine blast death toll at 25, 4 still missing
  Posted Apr. 6, 2010 - A mine blast has killed 25 so far with 4 people still missing. (Virginia, USA)
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• Window washer falls
  Posted Apr. 5, 2010 - A window washer fell 12 storys from a Toronto condo tower while washing windows at the top of the 33-storey building. (Toronto, Ont.)
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• Propane tanks explode
  Posted Apr. 5, 2010 - A number of 20lbs. BBQ propane tanks exploded at Superior Propane igniting the skids they were on. (Smithville, Ont.)
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• Winnipeg - Robbery Capital
  Posted March 26, 2010 Robbers in Winnipeg are more likely to target convenience stores and gas stations than robbers in most other Canadian cities.
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• Native firefighters trained in emergency spill response
  Posted Mar. 23, 2010 - Native firefighters receive training on emergency spill response.
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• Bus driver wearing Ipod kills 9 year old
  Posted Mar. 23, 2010 - A bus driver who was waering an Ipod and fell asleep at the wheel crashed the bus into a light standard killing a nine year old passenger. (Calgary, Alb.)
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• Officers beaten with brass knuckles
  Posted Mar. 23, 2010 - A Peace River, Alta., RCMP officer is in hospital with serious injuries after she and her partner were beaten with brass knuckles and had a Taser taken Sunday at a home in (Cadotte Lake, Alb.)
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• Children's Aid worker stabbed in Windsor
  Posted Mar. 19, 2010 - A children's aid worker is in hospital after she was stabbed in the parking lot of the Children's Aid Society. (Windsor, Ont.)
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• Truck Drivers Stuck and Stranded
  Posted Mar. 18, 2010 - Some trucking companies are still trying to figure out a way to get stranded drivers back from the shores of Wrong Lake in northern Manitoba.
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• Red Cross tsunami workers left high and dry
  Posted Mar. 18, 2010 - Some construction workers hired by the Canadian Red Cross to help rebuild communities following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were left stranded and never paid for their work, according to an investigation by Radio-Canada.
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• Heavy Equipment Set on Fire for a Fifth Time in Eight Months
  Posted Mar. 17, 2010 - A suspect who believes construction is destroying the environment has set fire to heavy machinery five times in the last eight months. (Chambly, Que)
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• Potash company fined $420,000 in workers death
  Posted Mar. 16, 2010 - The company pleaded guilty to a single count of failing to ensure the health, safety and welfare at work of all the employer's workers after an employee died while operating a jeep. (Saskatchewan)
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• Bath house owner faces fines
  Posted Mar. 15, 2010 - Charges for 15 fire code violations were laid against the owner of Aquarius Men's Bath on Notre Dame Avenue. Violations included things such as improper use of electrical cords and fire doors that weren't closing or latching properly. (Winnipeg)
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• Five Winnipeg businesses robbed overnight
  Posted Mar. 15, 2010 - On Mar. 10, 2010 Police were busy overnight responding to 5 business robberies. While no employees were reported injured, one employee was robbed of some personal belongings. (Winnipeg)
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• Side shields mantory for taxis
  Posted Mar. 15, 2010 - After a rise in cab driver robberies and assaults, the Manitoba Taxicab Board is making it mandatory for all cabs to have shields that protect the driver’s right side. (Winnipeg)
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• Hotel worker bear sprayed
  Posted Mar. 15, 2010 - On Saturday Mar. 13 2010 an employee at the La Salle Hotel was sprayed with bear repellant during a robbery. (Winnipeg)
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• Bus driver assaulted
  Posted on Mar. 15, 2010 - On Mar. 13, 2010 a transit bus driver was assaulted while working by an intoxicated rider. (Winnipeg)
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• Ice cutting machine sinks through ice in Selkirk
  Posted Mar. 15, 2010 - On Saturday Mar. 13, 2010 an ice cutting machine valued at approximately $115,000 broke through the ice in Selkirk while workers were cutting ice in the latest attempt to prevent spring flooding.(Manitoba)
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• Two dead in shooting at car dealership
  Posted March 12, 2010 - On March 12 at 7:50 am, shots rang as a disgruntled employee opened fired at a Edmonton car dealership. (Alberta)
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• Company fined $30,050 for workplace incident
  Posted Mar. 8, 2010 - On Jan. 10, 2010 Wheat City Sandblasting & Painting Ltd. was fined $30,050 for failing to ensure that a worker used safe work procedures when sandblasting a tank. (Manitoba)
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• Company charged under Bill C-45
  Posted Mar. 10, 2010 - On April 16, 2009, Ontario police recently charged a corporate employer and two individuals with criminal negligence causing death after a fatal workplace accident at a construction project. (Ontario)
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• OPP officer dies after shootout
  Posted Mar. 9, 2010 - On Mar. 8, 2010 a routine attempt to stop a truck on a rural county road north turned into a deadly shootout that claimed the life of a 37-year-old OPP constable. (Ontario)
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• RCMP officer injured after a collision with a Ford F-150 truck.
  Posted Mar. 9, 2010 - On Mar. 6, 2010 an RCMP officer was injured after the cruiser he was driving crashed into a truck early Saturday morning (Alberta)
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• More protection for cabbies
  Posted Mar. 8, 2010 - Cab drivers will soon be receiving extra protection in the form of a larger protective shield after an escalating series of assaults and robberies. (Manitoba)
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• Toronto worker falls 5 floors to his death
  Posted Mar. 5, 2010 - On Feb. 18, 2010 an incident involving swing stages has claimed a life, the fifth in the past 2 months. (Ontario)
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• Hazmat crew sent to Winnipeg Police headquarters
  Posted Mar. 5, 2010 - On Mar. 5, 2010 Haz-mat crews were sent to the Public Safety Building after staff complained of a solvent smell. (Manitoba)
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• Alberta highway closed after truck carrying dynamite crashes; one dead
  Posted Feb. 23, 2010 - On Feb 16, 2010 a semi loaded with dynamite crashed. (Alberta)
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• Standard Manufacturers Services Fined $36,000
  Posted Feb. 23, 2010 - On Dec. 17, 2010 a worker`s finger was amputated while working with a band saw. (Manitoba)
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• Workplace Safety Stressed
  Posted Feb. 6, 2010 - 1 Life Workplace Safety & Health and Ranger Insurance Brokers on the importance of Workplace Safety.
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• Carbon Monoxide Death
  Posted Feb. 6, 2010 - On Dec. 9, 2009 a 59 y/o owner of the St Adolphe hotel was found unconscious and later died due to carbon monoxide from faulty furnace. Workplace Safety and Health investigated. (Manitoba)
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• Workplace Safety Fines to Soar in Manitoba
  Posted Dec. 28, 2009 - Labour Minister Jennifer Howard announced that the maximum fine under the Workplace Safety and Health Act for a first offence will increase from the current $150,000 to $250,000. The maximum fine for subsequent offences will rise from $300,000 to $500,000.
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• Businesses Told to Prepare for H1N1
  Posted Dec. 24, 2009 - Theo Kowalchuk, President of 1 Life Workplace Safety on the three key things business owners need to do.
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• Triple E Canada Ltd. Fined $60,050
  Posted Dec. 24, 2009 - On Nov. 19, 2009 Triple E Canada Ltd. was fined $60,050 for failing to conduct a job hazard analysis for the operation of shear. (Manitoba)
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• Precast Worker Seriously Injured
  Posted Dec. 22, 2009 - On Nov. 9, 2009 a worker fell 12 feet onto a concrete slab. (Manitoba)
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