Roofing company fined for repeated health and safety violations

BRAMPTON, Ont. – A Toronto-based roofing firm, Sunny Roofing Inc., has been fined $33,000, and company proprietor Dong Mo fined an additional $14,000, for multiple violations of Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act (OSHA). According to a court bulletin from the Ontario Ministry of Labour (MOL), the company was convicted of six charges on Sept. 8 at the Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton. Sunny’s offences, which included failure to ensure that employees wore fall protection, protective head gear and protective footwear, had taken place in Mississauga on April 10 and May 6 of last year and in Brampton last October 11. Judge Angelo E. Amenta also convicted Mo of failing to ensure that employees wore fall protection and imposed a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge on both Sunny and Mo, the MOL said. Sunny had previously been convicted of OSHA violations only two days before one of the days on which these offences occurred, the bulletin added; Judge Amenta ruled that the earlier $4,000 fine had been aggravating.

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