Construction 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: Traffic control / Industrial, commercial, institutional or highrise residential contracting or construction / Local government and related operations
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2025-Aug
ID Number: 2025196490010
A worker was assisting a bucket truck to turn around on a closed street. The bucket truck clipped some stacked steel fence panels (8 by 10 feet), causing several panels to fall and strike the worker.
Injury Type: Injury to upper body
Core Activity: Bridge, overpass, or viaduct construction or repair
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2025-Aug
ID Number: 2025175270010
A worker was working from a mobile elevating work platform on a barge when a passing vessel created a wave that caused the barge to sway. The worker was caught between a bridge girder and the personnel basket.
Injury Type: Undetermined injuries (2 workers)
Core Activity: Industrial, commercial, institutional or highrise residential contracting or construction
Location: Northern B.C.
Date of Incident: 2025-Aug
ID Number: 2025194090014
Two workers (one of them a young worker) were injured when 22 trusses fell during installation onto 20-foot-high walls. One of the workers was in a mobile elevating work platform that toppled onto its side during the incident.
Injury Type: Close call
Core Activity: Bridge, overpass, or viaduct construction or repair
Location: Interior B.C.
Date of Incident: 2025-Aug
ID Number: 2025160850033
An excavator conducting highway construction work at the leading edge of the road dislodged a rock about 24 inches in diameter. It rolled 75 feet down a steep slope, striking a retaining wall on private property and then the house on the property. The siding of the house was damaged, but no one was injured.
Injury Type: Abrasions and bruises
Core Activity: Industrial, commercial, institutional or highrise residential contracting or construction / Structural concrete forming / Concrete reinforcing
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2025-Aug
ID Number: 2025182130014
As a flytable was being moved from level 13 to level 14, two unsecured filler pieces (2 by 8 feet) fell to the level 3 podium below. One of the pieces struck a worker.
Injury Type: Fractures
Core Activity: House or other wood frame contracting, construction, or renovation work
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2025-Aug
ID Number: 2025203080013
A worker was setting up to paint the trim of a two-storey building. The worker slipped and fell from the top of an aluminum extension ladder to grade, about 22 feet.
Injury Type: Injuries to hand
Core Activity: Siding, awning, or gutter installation, service, or repair
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C.
Date of Incident: 2025-Aug
ID Number: 2025197970020
A worker was injured while operating a table saw without a guard.
Injury Type: Laceration
Core Activity: House or other wood frame contracting, construction, or renovation work
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2025-Aug
ID Number: 2025211930008
During renovation finishing work, a worker was removing a mirror from a bathroom wall when the mirror broke.
Injury Type: Close call
Core Activity: Water taxi or crew transport / Pier, wharf, or dry dock construction or repair / Industrial contracting or construction
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2025-Jul
ID Number: 2025165370022
A tugboat operator was retrieving a lash line when they fell into the water. No injuries were reported.
Injury Type: Fractures
Core Activity: Painting or wallpapering
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2025-Jun
ID Number: 2025203080012
A worker was standing on a lower roof (about 10 feet above grade) using an extension pole to repaint fascia about 22 feet above grade. The worker was looking up and inadvertently stepped off the roof, falling to rocks below.
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