A Mississauga residential developer has been fined $50,000 after a worker suffered a critical injury at a Cambridge subdivision construction site.
The incident stems from 2023, at a workplace run by residential construction company Cachet Homes Corp. in the Steadman Street area of Cambridge, a new subdivision with 205 detached and freehold townhomes.
It was on the morning of May 3 when a subcontracted worker was assigned to insulate a wood-framed home on the site.
The Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development reported that the worker was in the midst of setting up a temporary platform to reach the second story of a home, when they leaned on a previously installed wooden guardrail system.
That guard rail is said to have possibly been installed by another subcontractor, and when the worker leaned on it, the rail gave way and caused them to fall nearly 10 feet and suffer critical injuries.
“An investigation by the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development found that the wooden guardrail system, installed during the framing of the house, was not securely fastened to the posts.”
Cachet Homes Corp. plead guilty to those charges in a Kitchener Provincial Offences Court, and has since been fined $50,000.
The Ministry report notes that the developer has also had a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge imposed, to be credited to a “special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.”