In safety, what you don’t have can be equally as damning as what you do have. An Ontario wood floor manufacturer has been fined $80,000 for failure to ensure a guardrail was installed around a pit. The charge came after a worker fell about 5.5 feet (1.65 meters) into a pit and suffered several injuries, including a broken vertebra in his neck. The victim was unloading dried lumber from a kiln when a hook slipped off of a kiln truck being used to move the lumber. The hook, part of a fiber sling and cable winch system, swung toward the worker […]