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Worker killed pinned by mobile work platform during Dematic conveyor installation

S5 · 08/09
2016 · Dematic · Brampton, ON, Canada

Record

CompanyDematic
Categorywarehouse automation
Typefatality
Date08/09
2016
Time of daynot documented
LocationBrampton, ON, Canada · Warehouse construction site
SeverityS5 (fatality or catastrophic loss)
Scale1 fatality, 1 site
Confidencehigh
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourceManufacturing AUTOMATION

What happened

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.

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