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Uni-Tech Elevator Pleads Guilty to Safety Violation
Posted on Monday, November 23, 2009 04:30 AM
November 23, 2009FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Newmarket, ON, November 23, 2009) Uni-Tech Elevator and Lift Inc. in Toronto, Ontario, pled guilty to failing to comply with welding requirements when constructing an elevating device, contrary to provincial requirements under the Technical Standards and Safety Act, 2000 (the Act) and the Elevating Devices Code Adoption Document (CAD).The Ontario Court of Justice in Newmarket fined Uni-Tech Elevator and Lift Inc. $10,000, plus the 25% Victim Fine...
Sudbury Company Guilty of Elevator Violation
Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 05:30 AM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Timmins, ON, March 27, 2008) – A Sudbury company, Ontario 1039434 Ltd., pled guilty today to a serious public safety violation, contrary to Ontario Regulation 209/01 (Elevating Devices) under the Technical Standards and Safety Act, 2000 (the Act), and was consequently fined $20,000 plus a 25% Victim Surcharge by the Ontario Court of Justice in Timmins given the circumstances of the case.In June 2007, the Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) investigated...
Fujitec Canada Inc., charged with five counts of violating elevator safety requirements
Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 04:00 AM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Toronto, ON, January 25, 2007). The Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) has charged Fujitec Canada Inc. with five counts of violating safety requirements in connection with an elevator incident that occurred on January 27, 2006 at 522 University Avenue in Toronto, Ontario.
At approximately 4:30 p.m. on January 27, 2006 a hydraulic elevator at 522 University Avenue dropped several stories, resulting in serious, non-life threatening injuries to five elevator...
Property Management Company Fined For Elevator Alteration
Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 05:15 AM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Oshawa, ON, April 25, 2006) - An Oshawa Ontario property management company has plead guilty to one count of putting into service a licenced elevating device to which a major alteration had been made, without it first being inspected by a provincial inspector.
Park Lane II Inc. of Oshawa, Ontario, was fined $10,000 by the Ontario Court of Justice in Whitby for safety violations under the Technical Standards and Safety Act, 2000 (the Act) and regulations. Justice of the...
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