Young Framer's Fall Leads to $50K Fine

Tony Marsman Construction Ltd. was fined $50,000 in a London, Ontario, court last week for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that resulted in serious injuries to a young worker. The young man was installing flooring in a partially built house when he fell from the second story onto a concrete garage floor below. The worker suffered two broken wrists and a broken facial bone in the May 2004 accident. A Ministry of Labor investigation found that the worker was working without any fall protection equipment. The incident occurred at a 30-home construction project o...