A London company has been charged under the Occupational Health and Safety Act after one of its employees was electrocuted last summer near Watford and three others were injured.
Signature Events Rental Shoppe - facing a total of nine charges - is scheduled to appear in London court on May 5.
On Aug. 1, 2013, Jeremy Bowley, 21, of London, was pronounced dead in hospital after a pole for the tent he was setting up made contact with hydro wires, police said.
The three injured males were a 23-year-old from West Elgin, a 17-year-old and 25-year-old, both from London.
The Ontario Ministry of Labour says signature events failed to ensure the health and safety of its workers on the project and it failed to provide instruction and supervision to a worker with respect to the hazard of overhead electrical wires.
It also says the company failed to take one or more of the following reasonable precautions:
- Ensuring that a hazard awareness program for workers was established and maintained.
- Ensuring that a safe procedure for workers to erect tents was established and maintained.
- Ensuring that a site was assessed for hazards before workers began erecting a tent on the site.
