Ottawa's Confederation Line light rail project has racked up considerably more workplace safety orders than two other major transit projects in Ontario, despite having the shortest tunnel and smallest budget of the three. Numbers provided by the Ministry of Labour show the Ottawa project has received 721 corrective orders since it began in March 2013, and has been under an additional 111 stop-work orders. The Eglinton Crosstown Line has been under construction for just over four years and has had just 86 corrective orders and five stop-work orders. The recently completed Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension has had 629 corrective orders and 43 stop-work orders issued against it, and was under construction for nearly seven years before opening in late 2017. The lost time injury frequency rate is a common method within the industry of measuring workplace safety.

Source: CBC News March 01, 2018 09:00 UTC