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Published Mar 06, 2024 • 1 minute read
H&N Roofing & Sheet Metal on Bayview Crescent in east London is shown on March 6, 2024. Mike Hensen/The London Free Press
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A London roofing company has been fined $75,000 after a worker fell 15 feet while at a downtown job site, provincial officials say.
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It was Dec. 18, 2020 when officials with Ontario’s labour ministry say workers from London-based H&N Roofing & Sheet Metal were working on the fifth-storey roof of a commercial building at 255 Queens Ave. in downtown London.
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The crew was doing roofing around an opening in the roof that was cut for “a new air-handling unit,” provincial officials say. The opening, cut by another company working on the project, was measured four feet by eight feet, provincial officials say, adding only Styrofoam insulation covered the opening at the time of the incident.
One of the workers close to the opening lost their footing, slipped, and fell 15 feet through it, hitting the concrete floor below, provincial officials say. The worker wasn’t wearing fall protection or head protection, provincial officials say.
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“H&N Roofing & Sheet Metal Limited failed to ensure the worker was protected by appropriate fall protection and wearing protective headwear, as required by sections” of Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act, read a statement issued Wednesday by the labour ministry.
After a trial on Feb. 6 in provincial offences court in London, the company was fined $70,000 and $5,000 by Justice of the Peace Frank Leddy for contravening two sections of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. The Crown on the case was Katie Krafchick.
The court also imposed a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge, which goes to a special provincial government fund that assists victims of crime in Ontario.
H&N Roofing is based on Bayview Crescent near London’s eastern edge. A person there on Wednesday said no one was available to discuss the ruling.
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