TORONTO -- A mental health facility in Brockville, Ont., is facing five charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act relating to alleged worker safety violations.
The Ontario Ministry of Labour says the charges against the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, operating as Brockville Mental Health Centre, follow a ministry investigation into an October incident.
A ministry spokesman says the Oct. 10 incident involved a nurse who was stabbed with a pen by a patient in the forensic treatment unit.
The ministry said Wednesday the centre had failed to provide sufficient information, instruction and supervision to protect an employee from workplace violence or the risk thereof from a patient.
It also accuses the facility of failing to implement safety devices, measures and procedures to protect an employee from workplace violence or risk from a patient.
Similar charges were announced Tuesday against the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health over an incident in January at a CAMH facility in Toronto, where a nurse was allegedly beaten by a patient.
In the Brockville case, a first appearance is scheduled at the Ontario Court of Justice in Brockville on March 11.
