Incident summaries are based on information obtained as soon as possible after the incidents: they are preliminary and subject to change. Details have been edited to protect workers’ privacy.
Core Activity: Concrete reinforcing / Bridge construction or repair
Location: Northern B.C.
Date of Incident: 2020-Apr
Two workers were installing reinforcing steel to fabricate a free-standing pier cap for a bridge structure when the pier collapsed, injuring the workers. The workers were attended to by on-site first aid personnel, then transported to hospital by ambulance.
Injury Type: Close call
Core Activity: Excavation operation
Location: Interior B.C.
Date of Incident: 2020-Mar
A young worker was helping to install a plumbing line in a trench when the trench partially collapsed, burying the worker. The worker was extricated by co-workers and emergency services.
Injury Type: Injury to hand
Core Activity: Concrete reinforcing
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2020-Mar
A young worker was bending rebar on a bending machine when the worker’s glove became caught and was drawn into the rollers.
Injury Type: Fractured arm
Core Activity: Painting or wallpapering / Industrial, commercial, institutional, or highrise residential contracting or construction
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2020-Mar
A worker was preparing to paint doors in an interior unit of a building under construction. While the worker was on a stepladder hanging plastic sheeting over a window, one of the worker’s legs became entangled in the plastic sheeting, causing the worker to fall.
Injury Type: Close call
Core Activity: Pile driving
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C.
Date of Incident: 2020-Mar
As a mobile crane attempted to lift a waste tailings bin, the crane’s boom line snapped, resulting in the collapse of the boom. The boom collided with the back of a drill rig on the way down.
Injury Type: Fractured ribs, injury to back
Core Activity: Low slope roofing
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C.
Date of Incident: 2020-Mar
A worker was trying to access a residential roof when the extension ladder slipped out and slid away, causing the worker to fall.
Injury Type: Electric shock (1 worker)
Core Activity: Pile driving
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2020-Mar
Workers were installing timber piles with a mobile crane, drop hammer, and pile-driving leads adjacent to high-voltage overhead power lines. While rigging a pile laying on the ground, a young worker inadvertently pulled the mobile crane load into the high-voltage power lines. The worker received an electric shock.
Injury Type: Injuries to head (1 worker)
Core Activity: Industrial, commercial, institutional, or highrise residential contracting or construction / Construction labour supply
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2020-Feb
Four workers were manually installing a section of manufactured panel floor formwork onto a panel that had already been installed. The panel being installed dislodged and struck one of the workers.
Injury Type: Burns
Core Activity: Plumbing installation or repair / Public school district
Location: Interior B.C.
Date of Incident: 2020-Feb
A worker was conducting copper pipe soldering repairs on a water line. When the acetylene torch was lit, flames injured the worker.
Injury Type: Close call
Core Activity: Crane operation
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2020-Feb
A self-erecting tower crane swung at full speed in the opposite direction of that intended. The load block struck the top balcony edge of a building 25 feet beyond the perimeter of the jobsite fencing.
Injury Type: Undetermined injuries (1 worker)
Core Activity: Concrete reinforcing
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2020-Feb
Five workers were prefabricating a 14-foot reinforcing steel column on steel stands. As they were hand-lowering the completed column to the ground, the workers could not hold or support the weight, resulting in one worker striking a steel stand.
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