Ministry concludes lack of safety training led to critical injury

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Domm Construction Ltd. has been fined $75,000 after a worker was critically injured at a construction site in Ayton.

The company and a supervisor have pleaded guilty in provincial court.

The incident happened on Oct. 29, 2020 while four workers employed by Domm were  building a new barn installing girts (16-foot long, two-inch by four-inch timbers nailed to the inclined top timbers of roof trusses) atop the roof trusses of the barn.

One worker went down the incline to get additional girts and on the way back up, the worker stepped on the end of a girt that had been set in place but not yet nailed.

When the unsecured girt slid down the inclined timber of the truss, the worker fell about 16 feet to the concrete floor of the barn and suffer a critical injury, the court report states.

The Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development determined Domm Construction Ltd. “had not established or trained workers on a safe procedure for installing girts.” Also, personal fall protection harnesses and lanyards were on the job site, but none of the workers were wearing them, and there were no lifelines set up on the barn roof.

While workers had received formal Working at Heights Training, as required under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA), no site or task-specific training was provided by the employer, according to the court ruling.

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