{"id":789185,"date":"2026-07-08T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789185\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T22:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:38:08","slug":"workers-falls-from-ladder-leads-to-70k-fine-for-mississauga-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789185\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker&#8217;s falls from ladder leads to $70K fine for Mississauga company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The province has fined a Mississauga parts supplier after a worker fell from a ladder and was injured in an Ontario warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>The workplace incident happened on May 10, 2025, at the Ideal Supply Inc. warehouse in Listowel, where the Mississauga-based company employs around 130 workers, Ontario\u2019s Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development says.<\/p>\n<p>A worker was retrieving items stored on industrial racking and fell four feet to the ground, leading to injuries.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by the ministry found that the worker had not been provided with adequate information, instruction and supervision regarding the safe use of ladders, and the company has been fined $70,000.<\/p>\n<p>The court also imposed a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge as required by the Provincial Offences Act, which is credited to a special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/editorial-guidelines\" class=\"editorial-guidelines-link d-block mb-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            INsauga&#8217;s Editorial Standards and Policies        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last 30 Days: 43,306 Votes<\/p>\n<p>All Time: 1,420,038 Votes<\/p>\n<p>    3455 VOTES<br \/>\n    Do you think it\u2019s time for American alcohol products to return to Ontario?    <\/p>\n<p>\tWIN A $100 GIFT CARD<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to INsauga\u2019s daily email newsletter for a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The province has fined a Mississauga parts supplier after a worker fell from a ladder and was injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-789185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}