S5 · 08/09
2016 ·
Dematic · Brampton, ON, Canada
| Company | Dematic |
| Category | warehouse automation |
| Type | fatality |
| Date | 08/09 2016 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | Brampton, ON, Canada · Warehouse construction site |
| Severity | S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | 1 fatality, 1 site |
| Confidence | high |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | Manufacturing AUTOMATION |
A worker was fatally pinned between the guardrail of a mobile elevated work platform and a steel structure while Dematic Ltd. employees installed a conveyor system at an under-construction warehouse in Brampton, Ontario. Dematic pleaded guilty in a Brampton court on March 8, 2018 and was fined $175,000.