May 1, 2019
These summaries of selected construction work-related incidents recently reported to WorkSafeBC may help you to prevent similar incidents.
See additional summaries online.
| Injury Type: Close call |
| Core Activity: Crane operation |
| Location: Lower Mainland |
| Date of Incident: 2019-Apr |
| A worker slewing a tower crane inadvertently dragged chain sling rigging onto the rooftop structures of two buildings on an adjacent property. |
| Injury Type: Close call |
| Core Activity: Concrete pumping / Crane operation |
| Location: Lower Mainland |
| Date of Incident: 2019-Apr |
| Workers were operating a self-erecting tower crane and concrete pump truck in proximity to each other. Safe work procedures were established for the overlapping operating zone. As the tower crane was leaving the overlapping zone, the concrete pump truck operator raised and slewed the boom without warning. The boom collided with the crane’s load line. |
| Injury Type: Close call |
| Core Activity: Masonry / Commercial contracting or construction |
| Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C. |
| Date of Incident: 2019-Apr |
| The unbraced top section of a concrete block wall collapsed during construction. The wall was 12 m (40 feet) long and about 12 m (40 feet) high. The unbraced top section that collapsed was 2.4 m (8 feet) high. The lower braced section, 10 m (32 feet) high, remained in place. No workers were injured. |
| Injury Type: Multiple injuries to upper body |
| Core Activity: Industrial, commercial, institutional, or highrise residential contracting or construction |
| Location: Lower Mainland |
| Date of Incident: 2019-Apr |
| A worker was conducting building envelope renovation work from a manufactured scaffold system. The worker fell about 9 feet from the scaffold to the concrete sidewalk below. |
| Injury Type: Close call |
| Core Activity: Excavation operation |
| Location: Lower Mainland |
| Date of Incident: 2019-Mar |
| An excavator operator was trying to remove the upper riser of a manhole cover with the excavator’s bucket. The bucket inadvertently contacted and ruptured a natural gas line. The site was evacuated and the utility owner repaired the gas line. |
| Injury Type: Close call |
| Core Activity: Blasting or avalanche control |
| Location: Interior B.C. |
| Date of Incident: 2019-Mar |
| As part of blasting operations for avalanche control work, a 50-pound case charge was placed adjacent to a private road. The charge was detonated as intended, to release a class 2 avalanche. The pressure wave from the blast exceeded expectations, damaging an adjacent road barrier and fracturing a window pane in a structure about 190 metres away from the blast area. No injuries were reported. |
| Injury Type: Multiple injuries |
| Core Activity: House or other wood frame contracting, construction, or renovation work |
| Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C. |
| Date of Incident: 2019-Mar |
| A young worker fell 9 feet from a ladder to grade. The worker landed on both feet, then fell backward. |
| Injury Type: Undetermined injury to head |
| Core Activity: Electrical work |
| Location: Lower Mainland |
| Date of Incident: 2018-Mar |
| While working from a stepladder, a young worker fell and was injured. |
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