|
|
|
June 12, 2023
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.
See additional summaries online.
|
Injury Type: Injury to finger
|
Core Activity: Ornamental nursery or floral field production |
Location: Interior B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023163210028 |
A worker was adjusting a cedar seeder when one of their fingers got caught in the gear assembly.
|
|
Injury Type: Undetermined
|
Core Activity: Wildfire suppression |
Location: Northern B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023170060009 |
A new worker was participating in their employer's fitness training session, including a 6-kilometre morning run. During the run, the worker collapsed. The worker was transported to hospital by ambulance.
|
|
Injury Type: Close call
|
Core Activity: Poultry farming and related services |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023166520006 |
A structure fire occurred, destroying a large two-storey barn (about 500 feet long). No poultry were in the barn at the time of the fire and no injuries were reported. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
|
|
Injury Type: Multiple injuries to leg
|
Core Activity: Glass shop, window installation, or window glass repair or replacement |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023200670007 |
A lift truck was transporting a rack containing sheets of glass. The rack fell off the lift truck's forks, striking a worker next to the lift truck.
|
|
Injury Type: Laceration
|
Core Activity: Meat cutting, packing, processing, or canning |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023194000005 |
A worker was using a boning knife to break down a carcass when they inadvertently wounded themselves.
|
|
Injury Type: Abrasions and bruising
|
Core Activity: Plastic film extrusion and flexible packaging manufacture |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023184470024 |
A worker's shirt became entangled on the product roll shaft of a printing machine. The worker was pulled toward the machine but freed themselves by taking off their shirt.
|
|
Injury Type: Injuries to hands
|
Core Activity: Metal product manufacture |
Location: Interior B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023194050007 |
A young worker was injured while bending steel on a hydraulic brake press.
|
|
Injury Type: Suspected fracture of leg (1 worker)
|
Core Activity: Precision instrument manufacture |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-Apr |
ID Number: 2023195020010 |
A worker was assisting to load a small chipper conveyor (about 10 feet long, weighing about 300 pounds) onto a delivery truck. As the conveyor was lifted, it slipped off the forklift to one side and struck one of the worker's legs.
|
|
Injury Type: Internal injuries
|
Core Activity: House or other wood frame contracting, construction, or renovation work |
Location: Interior B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023180940012 |
A worker engaged in framing activities fell through temporary guardrails. The worker fell about 22 feet.
|
|
Injury Type: Fracture in lower body, injury to shoulder
|
Core Activity: Deck, railing, or fence installation |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023194280004 |
A worker riding on the bed of a flatbed truck fell off and was struck by a trailer the truck was towing.
|
|
Injury Type: Fractured leg
|
Core Activity: Highway maintenance (routine maintenance of all aspects of a specific section of highway) |
Location: Interior B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023173540005 |
A worker was using a chainsaw to cut up sections of a fallen tree on a roadside when a portion of the tree rolled and struck the worker.
|
|
Injury Type: Fractured leg
|
Core Activity: Steep slope roofing |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023165370016 |
A worker performing roofing work on a steep roof (slopes between 12:12 and 18:12) fell to grade (12 to 15 feet). The worker was using a fall restraint system but the vertical lifeline was old and it broke.
|
|
Injury Type: Fractured arm
|
Core Activity: Framing or residential forming |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023203080005 |
A worker was on a self-supporting ladder, cutting a piece of material for a truss of a building at a residential workplace, when they fell about 6 feet to grade.
|
|
Injury Type: Lacerated arm
|
Core Activity: House or other wood frame contracting, construction, or renovation work |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023203080004 |
A worker was using a chop saw to cut flooring material when the material bound and one of the worker's arms was pulled into the blade.
|
|
Injury Type: Fractures, head injury
|
Core Activity: Concrete pumping |
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023181300014 |
As a worker was priming a concrete pump system, they were struck by the whip hose and knocked from the back of the pump truck to the ground.
|
|
Injury Type: Multiple fractures, laceration
|
Core Activity: House or other wood frame contracting, construction, or renovation work |
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023188200010 |
A worker fell about 10 feet as they stepped off a ladder.
|
|
Injury Type: Close call
|
Core Activity: Excavation operation |
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023167040016 |
During excavation work for a new sewer line, a half-inch residential natural gas line was severed, resulting in a substantial leak. The utility owner and fire department attended and stopped the leak. No injuries were reported.
|
|
Injury Type: Injuries to upper body and one arm
|
Core Activity: Low slope roofing |
Location: Interior B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023180940011 |
At night, a worker was carrying out roofing activities on a two-storey commercial building with a low-slope roof. The worker fell from the roof to grade.
|
|
Injury Type: Concussion, lacerations
|
Core Activity: Transfer station operation / Local government and related operations |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023163270007 |
The operator of a tub grinder for food waste heard unusual sounds coming from the machine and used a ladder to investigate. The machine remained energized. A metal guard for the machine had fallen into the point of operation and was contacting the process blades. A piece of metal was ejected from the machine and struck the worker. Co-workers found the worker on the ground.
|
|
Injury Type: Injuries to upper body (1 worker)
|
Core Activity: Siding, awning, or gutter installation, service, or repair |
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023186470009 |
At a residential construction site, workers were assembling scaffolding. A worker was attempting to place a cross-plank when they lost their balance and fell about 32 feet to uneven grade below.
|
|
Injury Type: Close call
|
Core Activity: Industrial, commercial, institutional, or highrise residential contracting or construction / Structural concrete forming |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-Apr |
ID Number: 2023182130008 |
An unsecured rope from a swing stage was blown into the gears of a personnel hoist. As the hoist was being raised during the morning safety check, the rope caught on plywood hoarding, causing a piece of the plywood to become dislodged and fall to grade.
|
|
TRANSPORTATION AND WAREHOUSING
|
|
Injury Type: Close call
|
Core Activity: Dump truck operation |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023195020011 |
A dump truck veered off a highway, struck an overpass support pillar, and caught fire. No other vehicles were involved and the driver was not injured. The fire department extinguished the fire.
|
|
Injury Type: Laceration
|
Core Activity: Food, beverage, or tobacco product wholesale |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-Jun |
ID Number: 2023181350011 |
In a warehouse, a worker stepped into an area of the concrete floor that had been cut away to accommodate a machine for shrink-wrapping pallets. The worker tripped and fell forward into the vertical mast of the machine.
|
|
Injury Type: Injury to finger
|
Core Activity: Wholesale |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023198000006 |
A young worker was making cardboard boxes, stapling the sides together with an industrial stapler operated by a manual foot pedal. One of the worker's hands slipped and went into the contact point of the stapler as they were pressing the foot pedal.
|
|
Injury Type: Possible fractured leg
|
Core Activity: Building material wholesale |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023173920009 |
A truck driver was helping break apart a load of railway ties, stacked four pieces high. Each tie was 7 by 9 inches and 16 feet long (weighing about 300 pounds). The dunnage under the load did not extend all the way through the load and the last row of railway ties was only partially resting on the dunnage. When the driver snipped the metal band holding the load together, a row of four railway ties rolled off the dunnage and pinned the driver between the load and one of the truck's tires.
|
|
Injury Type: Concussion, injury to lower body
|
Core Activity: General retail |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-Apr |
ID Number: 2023170660003 |
As a worker was descending a 4-foot stepladder, they fell backward from the second step, striking their head on the tile floor.
|
|
Injury Type: Fatal
|
Core Activity: Local government and related operations |
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023197990005 |
A worker was monitoring a storm drain in a park. The storm drain was adjacent to a sidewalk and about 3 metres from a public roadway. The worker was struck by a vehicle that jumped the curb.
|
|
Injury Type: Cuts and bruises (1 worker); Undetermined injuries (2 individuals)
|
Core Activity: Local government and related operations |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023165700008 |
On its final approach to a runway, an airplane collided with a work truck on a public roadway. The two occupants of the plane were injured, as was the worker driving the truck.
|
|
Injury Type: Fractured leg
|
Core Activity: Public school district |
Location: Vancouver Island/Coastal B.C. |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023167040018 |
A worker was replacing exhaust fan blower units on the roof of a school. As the worker was throwing an old unit from the roof, the worker fell about 17 feet, to a grassy area below.
|
|
Injury Type: Multiple fractures
|
Core Activity: Heavy equipment, machinery, or parts sales, rental, service, or repair (greater than 500 pounds) |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023165700009 |
A worker was positioned below a hydraulic cylinder that was supported by a come-along (portable winch) and web slings. Stress was placed on the come-along, causing the chain to break and the hydraulic cylinder to fall and strike the worker.
|
|
Injury Type: Fractured ankle
|
Core Activity: Window, gutter, or awning cleaning |
Location: Lower Mainland |
Date of Incident: 2023-May |
ID Number: 2023197950024 |
A young worker was ascending an extension ladder when the ladder slipped. The worker fell about 8 feet to the ground.
|
 |
|
Reporting incidents | Subscribe | Send feedback
WorkSafeBC, PO Box 5350 Stn Terminal, Vancouver BC V6B 5L5
|