Ontario's Ministry of Labour says it issued at least eight orders - including two stop-work orders - at the Toronto apartment building where four migrant workers plunged to their deaths on Christmas Eve.
A ministry spokesman says one of the stop-work orders handed to Metron Construction Inc. had been lifted by a ministry inspector one week before the men died.
Matt Blajer adds that none of the ministry's orders dealt with the swing stage that broke Dec. 24 with deadly consequences.
The four men died after they plummeted 13 storeys to the ground, and a fifth man is in intensive care with two fractured legs and a broken spine.
Joel Swartz, the president of Metron, says ministry visits to sites are routine and if those visits resulted in an order from the ministry those issues were "immediately rectified."
Mr. Swartz said in Metron's 23 years of operation it has never been charged with any violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.