Workplace safety charges filed after man died on boss’s property [Video]

An Ottawa business whose employee died working on his boss’s property is now facing workplace safety charges alleging the company did not take proper steps to ensure the man made it home alive that day.

On a September weekend afternoon last year, Ron Hill, 62, was struck by the scoop of an excavator being operated by another worker, according to a report from the Office of the Chief Coroner. It happened on a property owned by Hill’s boss on the city’s eastern outskirts.

Hill, a floor installer working for Southgate Carpets Inc., was working on a house being demolished when he was hit, according to the coroner’s office. He fell from the second storey and was later pronounced dead at hospital.

Earlier this summer, Ontario’s Ministry of Labour filed four charges against Southgate alleging the company violated the province’s Occupational Health and Safety Act by not following one or more construction project regulations.

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