Ontario Newsroom | A worker was critically injured as a result of a Linamar Corporation’s failure to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by section 45(a) of Ontario Regulation 851/90 were carried out at a workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
On the day of the incident, an acting supervisor directed a worker to perform a broach stick tool change at the company’s Independence Place facility. A broach stick is a tool used in precision machining to remove material from a workpiece. It typically consists of a long, toothed bar that progressively cuts into the material as it passes through or along it.
The worker used a jib crane equipped with clamping attachments to insert and remove broach sticks from a broaching machine. During this operation, a 460-pound broach stick fell from the crane and struck the worker, resulting in a critical injury.
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