Ontario Construction
Fatalities (Deaths) for 2001
ONTARIO MINISTRY OF LABOUR
CONSTRUCTION HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRAM
FATALITIES 2001
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January 2, 2001 - A 58 year old worker died from carbon
monoxide poisoning at a residential project while servicing a
salamander heater.
January 10, 2001 - A 50 year old worker sustained fatal
injuries when struck by the bucket of a backhoe on a project in Kanata.
February 2001 - No fatalities.
March 16, 2001 - A 59 year old ironworker died when he fell
20 feet from the structure while erecting steel on a new theatre under
construction in Kitchener.
March 27, 2001 - A worker died when he was crushed
beneath a forklift that tipped over while an excavator on a project in Ajax was
towing it out of the mud.
April 18, 2001 - A 67 year old worker fell 8 feet
from a scaffold on April 17, 2001 and succumbed to the injuries sustained on
April 18, 2001. The accident occurred at a subway under construction in Don
Mills.
May 2001- No fatalities.
June 28, 2001 - A 25 year old labourer died when he was buried
under 4 feet of sandy gravel being discharges from a dump truck on a road
construction project in Clarington in Durham County.
July 13, 2001 - A 50 year old electrician working on an
industrial project in Cambridge was making a new connection in an electrical
panel when he came in contact with a live feed and was electrocuted.
July 23, 2001 - A 17 year old worker was killed when the
ride-on packer he was operating on project in Thunder Bay tipped off the
shoulder of the road crushing him.
July 28, 2001 - A 40 year old roofer succumbed to
injuries received when struck by a reversing tractor-trailer on an
industrial project in Downsview.
August 22, 2001 - A worker succumbed to injuries
sustained on August 15, when, while engaged in the installation of siding on a
residence, he disturbed a nest of bees and fell off a porch onto a
concrete sidewalk in Goderich.
August 23, 2001 - A lineman for a utility was electrocuted
when he came in contact with a live overhead secondary while moving electrical
lines to a new pole that had been relocated to accommodate a new driveway in
Niagara.
August 28, 2001 - A framer died when he fell from
the roof trusses through a stair opening into the basement of a two-storey
residence under construction in Kitchener.
September 12, 2001 - Two workers on a project Moosonee
making a lateral connection from a residence to a municipal sewer died when the
walls of a trench caved-in.
October 18, 2001 - A 32 year old worker on a project in
Guelph was crushed when the elevated blade of a dozer he was performing
maintenance work on dropped on him.
October 25, 2001 - A worker on a project in Markham died
when he was struck by a sheet of wallboard that blew across the second
floor and struck him and he fell to the ground below.
October 26, 2001 - A 26 year old and a 57 year old worker
were electrocuted when the boom of the crane they were using to install
Jersey Barriers on a project on the 401 at Bellville came in contact with an
overhead electrical conductor.
November 1, 2001 - A 29 year old worker was electrocuted
and died while disconnecting a cable from a welding machine on an industrial
project in Cambridge.
December 4, 2001 - A 52 year old worker was electrocuted
and died when an aluminium ladder he an another worker were moving struck an
overhead electrical conductor. He was engaged in the installation of de-icing
cables on the roof of a residence in White Lake (Ottawa).
December 14, 2001 - A worker died when run over by
a reversing tandem tractor-trailer on a road project in Etobicoke.
TOTAL 2001 - 21
TOTAL 2000 - 15
TOTAL 1999 - 20
Source: Ministry of Labour
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