Elevator contractor fined $75,000 in connection with 2022 fall
An elevator contractor has been fined in connection with a 2022 incident that led to a worker’s injuries.
Delta Elevator Company Limited pled guilty to charges of failing to provide a guardrail after a worker was injured falling from a platform. The company was fined $75,000 in a London court, and will pay an additional 25% victim fine surcharge.
The incident occurred on December 15, 2022 at a worksite on Talbot Street in London.
Delta Elevator Company Limited was hired to modernize two elevators in a multi-level apartment building and brought in a sub-contractor to do electrical work.
To reach the elevator room, the electrical worker had to climb a 13-tread flight of stairs from the broiler room. The landing at the top of the staircase had no barrier around the open side of the stairway. The metal guardrail had been removed by Delta workers to create room to move equipment.
On the day of the incident, the electrical worker completed installation of new lighting and other electrical equipment in the elevator room. To clean up the work area, the worker threw cardboard waste down to the broiler room floor. While doing that, they fell nine feet to the floor below, sustaining injuries.
Delta Elevator Company Limited was found to have failed to ensure the measures and procedures requiring a guardrail under section 26.1(1) of the Regulation for Construction were carried out in the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.