Project Manager Criminally Convicted For Workplace Negligence Causing Deaths And Personal Injury

There is another court decision out of the well-known tragedy in Toronto involving five workers who fell from the thirteenth floor of a high-rise building on December 24, 2009. The men's duties on the date of the accident included pouring concrete on balconies they were using a swing stage to access. During a descent between floors, brackets failed and the swing stage collapsed. The one worker who was attached to a lifeline remained suspended mid-air and was pulled to safety, while the other five workers fell from the 13th floor. Four of the workers died and one sustained serious injuries. The employer, Metron Construction Incorporated ("Metron"), was fined $750,000 in 2013 upon pleading guilty to criminal negligence causing death (R. v. Metron Construction Corp., 2013 ONCA 541).