{"id":56814,"date":"2018-10-16T15:35:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T19:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=56814"},"modified":"2018-10-16T15:35:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T19:35:32","slug":"uponor-fined-80000-for-worker-accident-at-huntsville-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/uponor-fined-80000-for-worker-accident-at-huntsville-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Uponor fined $80,000 for worker accident at Huntsville facility"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last month, Uponor Infra Ltd., the parent company of a pipe manufacturing facility on Centre Street, was fined $80,000 for a worker incident that occurred on March 25, 2017.<\/p>\n

A media release from the Ontario Ministry of Labour noted that on that date, a worker was assigned to operate one of the facility’s extruders, a task the worker didn’t normally perform. The extruders have internal tracks that guide the pipes through the machinery while they are being formed into the required sizes.<\/p>\n

While working on the extruder, the worker told the supervisor that the pipes inside the machine were slipping off their tracks. The supervisor instructed the worker to get under the machine while it was still in operation and clean the tracks in order to stop the pipes from slipping so the production line could continue working.<\/p>\n

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The worker complied and climbed under the machine. While cleaning one of the tracks, a sleeve got caught by a rotating drive shaft and the worker was pulled into the extruder. A nearby worker pushed an emergency stop button and called for help.<\/p>\n

The worker was extricated by emergency responders and remained hospitalized for several months.<\/p>\n

The investigation by the Ministry of Labour revealed that there was no guard in place to prevent access to exposed moving parts inside the extruder.<\/p>\n

Although Uponor had policies and procedures about shutting down or locking out machinery before performing any cleaning or maintenance, it was common practice in the workplace to clean the tracks while the machinery was in operation. The supervisor confirmed that workers cleaned the extruder in the same manner three to four times during a normal shift; the supervisor had done so twice already during the same shift.<\/p>\n

Section 75 of Ontario Regulation 851 (the Industrial Establishments Regulation) requires that a part of a machine shall only be cleaned or have maintenance work performed on it when a) motion that may endanger a worker has stopped, and b) any part that has been stopped and that may subsequently move and endanger a worker has been blocked to prevent its movement.<\/p>\n

On March 25, 2017, Uponor Infra Ltd. committed the offence of failing, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by section 75 of Ontario Regulation 851\/90 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.<\/p>\n

Following a guilty plea, the company was fined $80,000 by Justice of the Peace Douglas P. Conley in Bracebridge provincial court on September 12. The court also imposed a 25-per-cent victim fine surcharge as required by the Provincial Offences Act. The surcharge is credited to a special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.<\/p>\n

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