The report said Canada Steel Service Centre Inc. pleaded guilty and was fined $92,500 after serious injuries were suffered by a young worker in its warehouse.
On April 23 2007, the worker, who had been in the job for less than three months, was moving two bundles of steel round bars weighing approximately 8,000 pounds with an overhead crane operated by a hand-held control from the ground.
The rigging of the hoisting chains affixed by the worker to lift and move the bundles of steel was improper and unsafe and the steel consequently slipped out of the rigging and struck the worker below, the report continued.
It concluded: “The firm was fined for failing to provide information, instruction and supervision to a worker about how to safely operate an overhead crane to lift bundles of round bars, and failing to provide information, instruction and supervision about safe rigging procedures.”
