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April 16, 2024
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.
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Injury Type: Injury to leg (1 worker)
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Core Activity: Oil or gas field servicing / Oil or gas production |
Location: Northern B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2024-Apr |
ID Number: 2024165800001 |
A worker was assisting with a load carried by a skid-steer loader. One of the worker's feet got caught under the loader's track.
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Injury Type: Fracture
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Core Activity: Integrated forest management |
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2024-Feb |
ID Number: 2024192870013 |
A grapple yarder operator was clearing lines after a road change. As they tight-lined, the slack puller cable broke at the termination point. The operator boomed down to re-thread the cable in the boom, then walked out onto the backstop adjacent to the boom and started threading the cable. The cable became hung-up on the drum, and as the operator pulled it free, the operator fell about 10 feet and landed on the grapple below.
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Injury Type: Fractures, injuries to leg (1 worker)
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Core Activity: Metal recycling |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Apr |
ID Number: 2024181420008 |
A worker tried to move an empty 40-yard scrap metal bin using a forklift. The worker attached a chain from the bin to the forklift’s carriage and tried to move the equipment with the carriage positioned about 8 feet above the ground. The forklift rolled over onto its right side, pinning the worker. Co-workers used a skid-steer loader to lift the overturned forklift, freeing the worker.
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Injury Type: Injuries to hand
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Core Activity: Sawmill |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024184470028 |
A young worker was attempting to clear lumber on a transfer deck. The worker stumbled and as they tried to break their fall, they inadvertently put their hand in an exposed chain socket. The drive chain's guarding was on a hinge that had been left open, perhaps from earlier maintenance or cleaning activities.
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Injury Type: Laceration
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Core Activity: Sheet metal fabrication / Industrial, commercial, institutional, or highrise residential contracting or construction |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024155070013 |
A sheet metal worker was descending a stepladder and fell about 5 feet. As they struck the concrete below, their safety glasses cut them
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Injury Type: Injury to leg, head injury
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Core Activity: Oil or gas production / Oil or gas drilling |
Location: Northern B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024170090013 |
A worker helping to move a drilling rig move was struck by a portion of the rig.
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Injury Type: Injuries to hand (1 worker)
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Core Activity: Concrete product manufacture |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Feb |
ID Number: 2024161920004 |
A worker removed a guard and reached into a floor cleaning machine to adjust a spray nozzle while the equipment was still in operation. The worker's hand was caught underneath the rotating scrubber until freed by co-workers.
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Injury Type: Undetermined injury (1 worker)
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Core Activity: Low slope roofing / Crane operation |
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2024-Apr |
ID Number: 2024189880005 |
A tower crane was removing a thrust-out work platform from the ninth floor of a highrise under construction. During the removal, a four-wheel plywood dolly became dislodged and fell to a third-level balcony below, grazing a new and young worker.
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Injury Type: Exposure to hazardous materials (2 workers)
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Core Activity: House or other wood frame contracting, construction, or renovation work |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Apr |
ID Number: 2024203070002 |
A worker in a confined space became unresponsive while conducting activities related to waterproofing work. First aid and emergency services were summoned. A first aid attendant who entered the space to attempt rescue and administer first aid also became unresponsive. The fire department mechanically ventilated the space and lowered oxygen bottles and face masks. Both workers subsequently exited the space by themselves and were transported to hospital.
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Injury Type: Injuries to head
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Core Activity: Concrete pumping |
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2024-Apr |
ID Number: 2024154970011 |
The operator of a concrete pump truck was folding down the boom when the top two sections of the boom struck a dead branch of a large fir tree. The branch (4 feet long, 2 inches in diameter) fell about 60 feet, striking the operator, who was wearing their safety hard hat.
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Injury Type: Multiple injuries
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Core Activity: Steep slope roofing |
Location: Interior B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024163800004 |
A worker was walking on the roof ridge of a new house to secure his lifeline to an established roof anchor. The worker slipped on the frost-covered metal roof, slid down the roof, and fell to the ground. The total height was about 20 feet.
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Injury Type: Possible injuries to head and leg (1 worker)
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Core Activity: Siding, awning, or gutter installation, service, or repair |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024190590004 |
Two workers were installing an aluminum patio cover on a second-floor balcony. One of the workers, who was on an extension ladder, fell about 12 feet to grade.
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Injury Type: Soft-tissue injuries to legs (1 worker)
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Core Activity: Traffic control / Local government and related operations |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024197940001 |
A traffic control person (TCP) was directing
traffic from two lanes to one lane for a ditch-mowing operation at the shoulder of a roadway. As part of the operation, a tractor equipped with a mower attachment needed to back up and reposition to get past some permanent obstacles. After checking with the TCP, the operator started to back up. The tractor's left rear wheel struck the TCP.
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Injury Type: Fractured leg
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Core Activity: Oil or gas pipeline construction or repair / Oil or gas transmission (pipeline) |
Location: Northern B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024183100003 |
A worker was walking on ice when they slipped and fell.
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Injury Type: Injury to back
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Core Activity: Industrial, commercial, institutional, or highrise residential contracting or construction |
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024192870014 |
A worker had climbed a rebar grid on a foundation wall to strip pieces of wood on the bulkhead. The worker's fall protection system was anchored to a 15-foot vertical piece of 25-millimetre rebar held in place with rebar ties. The vertical section of rebar broke free of the grid, the worker fell 10 feet to the ground, and the section of rebar fell on top of them.
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Injury Type: Injuries to head
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Core Activity: House or other wood frame contracting, construction, or renovation work |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024205340006 |
While installing poly around the exterior of a rooftop elevator shaft bulkhead (to protect it from the rain), a worker slipped and fell about 16 feet down a ladder.
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Injury Type: Penetrating wound
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Core Activity: Concrete placing, finishing, surfacing, or repair |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024165410007 |
While placing concrete, a young worker fell off the wooden concrete forms and landed on a 9-inch vertical piece of reinforcing steel (rebar).
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Injury Type: Laceration
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Core Activity: Scaffolding, tent, staging, or display booth rental and installation / Oil refining or recycling |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024115520001 |
A worker was dismantling a temporary tent built around scaffolding when a diagonal tubular brace (12 feet long) became loose and struck the worker.
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Injury Type: Injuries to fingers
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Core Activity: Hardwood floor laying or refinishing |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024155070011 |
A worker was cutting hardwood flooring on a table saw when one of their hands contacted the rotating blade.
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TRANSPORTATION AND WAREHOUSING
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Injury Type: Injuries to arm (1 worker)
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Core Activity: Recycling depot |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024180850006 |
A young worker was cleaning debris on and around a conveyer system that was in operation. The worker inadvertently stuck one of their hands in a small gap between the guarding and the conveyor belt. The worker's arm was pulled into the tail pulley of the conveyer system. Co-workers activated the emergency stop and disassembled the conveyor system to free the worker.
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Injury Type: Soft tissue injuries, possible fracture
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Core Activity: Distribution centre |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024163270002 |
A worker's foot and leg were pinned between mobile equipment and a stacked load on a pallet.
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Injury Type: Temporary loss of consciousness, soft tissue injuries
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Core Activity: General trucking / Home improvement centre |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024195030005 |
A worker was on a flatbed crane truck adjusting the upright inserts. As the worker was climbing down from the flatbed, they fell backward to the ground and landed on their back.
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Injury Type: Multiple injuries
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Core Activity: General trucking / Wooden component manufacture |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Feb |
ID Number: 2024195020006 |
A worker was on a ladder tarping down the load on a tractor-trailer unit when they fell to the ground.
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Injury Type: Violence in the workplace
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Core Activity: Beer, wine, or liquor store |
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024199250010 |
While working alone, a worker was attacked and injured by a member of the public.
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Injury Type: Injury to lower leg (1 worker)
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Core Activity: Wholesale (not elsewhere specified) |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024186430005 |
A worker was inside a 53-foot container unloading boxes onto a pallet for a forklift to move to storage. As the forklift moved up the dock plate, a stack of four boxes (each weighing about 100 pounds) inside the container fell, injuring the worker.
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Injury Type: Injuries to head and hand
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Core Activity: Local government and related operations / General trucking / Broker or wholesale |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024163750002 |
While working inside of a concrete chamber, a worker was injured when planned work to rotate a water main valve's gear box using a mobile articulating boom crane failed.
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Injury Type: Fractures, bruising (2 workers)
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Core Activity: Resort operation |
Location: Interior B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2024-Apr |
ID Number: 2024194070004 |
Two workers were on a snowmobile, towing a trailer on a hill. The snowmobile encountered ice, resulting in a loss of control. The workers, who were both wearing helmets, were ejected onto the icy, hard-packed surface.
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Injury Type: Violence in the workplace
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Core Activity: Overnight and short-term accommodation |
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024182740003 |
A young worker working alone during a night shift at the front desk was attacked and injured by a guest.
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Injury Type: Possible fracture
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Core Activity: Heavy equipment, machinery, or parts sales, rental, service, or repair (greater than 500 pounds) |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024196470005 |
A worker was exiting the back of a barrel truck from the rear platform when their pant leg caught on a hook protruding above the truck bed. The worker fell about 3 feet to concrete below.
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Injury Type: Violence in the workplace
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Core Activity: Residential social service facility |
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024199250009 |
A worker at a residential social service facility was outside speaking to a non-worker who often used the facility. The non-worker lit a homemade firecracker they were holding. It exploded, injuring the worker.
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Injury Type: Fatal
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Core Activity: Sports instruction school |
Location: Interior B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024194010021 |
A young worker collided with a tree; they did not survive their injuries.
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Injury Type: Fractured leg
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Core Activity: Tree services (not directly related to the forestry industry) |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024189750002 |
A worker was sectioning a 15-foot tree stem into sections (14 to 16 inches long) starting from the top. The worker, together with the stem sections they were secured to, fell about 15 feet to the sloped ground below.
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Injury Type: Possible injury to head
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Core Activity: Fruit or vegetable packing or packaging |
Location: Interior B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024163210005 |
A worker was standing next to an automatic rollup door, waiting for a forklift to pass through, when the door automatically closed, striking the worker's head. The worker was wearing a hard hat.
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Injury Type: Close call
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Core Activity: Community health support services |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024175380008 |
A non-worker plugged in a bicycle battery to charge in the chill room of a supervised consumption site. They placed a blanket over the battery to hide it. The battery caught fire, triggering the fire alarm. Workers responded with a fire extinguisher but were unable to control the fire. The fire department attended and extinguished the fire.
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Injury Type: Burns (1 worker)
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Core Activity: Restaurant or other dining establishment |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024184480005 |
A motor vehicle accessing the drive-through of a restaurant crashed into the building, causing hot oil from an active deep fryer to splash onto a worker.
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Injury Type: Laceration
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Core Activity: Auto service or repair |
Location: Interior B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2024-Mar |
ID Number: 2024160850008 |
A worker was cutting a bolt with an electric portable hand grinder fitted with a fibrous disc cut-off wheel when the cut-off wheel disintegrated. A piece of it struck the worker.
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Injury Type: Close call
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Core Activity: Acute care |
Location: Interior B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2024-Feb |
ID Number: 2024188330002 |
Workers were using sterilizer machines when an alarm went off. The workers had moved to look at the control panel when they heard a loud bang and smelled something burning. A technician shut down the system and locked it down.
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Injury Type: Fractured leg
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Core Activity: Restaurant or other dining establishment |
Location: Interior B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2024-Feb |
ID Number: 2024183050007 |
While descending an indoor stairwell, a worker mis-stepped and fell down the remaining stairs.
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