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Investigation Reports - Construction
This site includes selected reports into incidents investigated by WorkSafeBC. These reports are intended to help employers and workers understand the causes and underlying factors that contribute to workplace accidents. This information may help you prevent similar accidents in your workplace. For information on how and why WorkSafeBC investigates incidents, see the FAQs.
Under BC privacy laws, personal, identifying information has been removed from the reports.
Construction
- Worker dies after being thrown back by concrete pump hose
- Date of Incident: November 2007
- NI number: 2007105910285
- Very good info. Please keep up the good work. more
- Worker falls through roof insulation to concrete floor
- Date of Incident: March 2007
- NI number: 2007157520114
- As a safety officer myself, and reading the details of the incident, it sounds to me that there should have been a safety net or some other control procedure in place prior to the worker even getting on the roof. more
- Framer falls through stair openings
- Date of Incident: June 2006
- NI number: 2006155070109
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- Worker falls from ladder when gutter hits high-voltage line
- Date of Incident: May 2006
- NI number: 2006114550142
- Thank you for sharing; it will be used with employee and public education in the dangers of electric power lines. more
- Worker survives excavator rollover
- Date of Incident: August 2005
- NI number: 2005138190147
- Great presentation!!! more
- Overhaul ball falls from crane, striking worker
- Date of Incident: June 2005
- NI number: 2005112130133
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- Young worker falls from third-storey balcony
- Date of Incident: January 2005
- NI number: 2005105910004
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