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Penalties - Construction
Penalties are fines for health and safety violations of the Workers Compensation Act and/or the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. For information on when penalties are considered and how the amount of the penalty is calculated, see the FAQs.
The address given is the location where the violation occurred and is not necessarily the address of the penalized business. The registered business name is given as well as any "doing business as" (DBA) name.
The delay between the date of the penalty and publication of the penalty by WorkSafeBC is partially a result of allowing time for employers and other interested parties to respond to the initial penalty and for the appeal process.
Construction - Penalties for 2009
Archive - Prior Penalties
Recent Penalties
Company: G.R. Roofing Ltd., Delta 
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: July 10, 2009
Two of this firm's workers were working without any form of fall protection on a 4:12 sloped roof that was about 5 m (17 ft.) above grade. This was a repeated violation.
Company: BL Roofing Ltd., Burnaby
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: June 19, 2009
This firm failed to ensure that a fall protection system was being used where a fall of 3 m (10 ft.) or more could have occurred. Two of the firm's workers were working with no means of fall protection about 6 m (20 ft.) above grade. This was a repeated violation of fall protection requirements.
Company: Empire Roofing Ltd., New Westminster
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $14,607
Date of penalty: June 18, 2009
Three workers were working with no means of fall protection on a frost-covered, sloped roof at heights between 3 and 4.5 m (11 and 15 ft.) above grade.
Company: Sadhu Sira, Surrey
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: June 17, 2009
Two workers were working without an effective fall protection system on a steep roof about 5.5 m (18 ft.) above grade. This was a repeated violation.
Company: Novo Homes Inc., Surrey
Classification unit: House or other wood frame general contracting, construction, or renovation work
Amount: $10,940
Date of penalty: June 17, 2009
This employer failed to ensure that a fall protection system was being used where a fall of 3 m (10 ft.) or more might occur.
Company: 597109 BC Ltd., Pitt Meadows
Classification unit: Plumbing, heating, vent, residential air conditioning, or central vacuum system installation or repair
Amount: $7,888
Date of penalty: June 16, 2009
This firm failed to comply with a Board order. On December 12, 2008, the Board found that the firm had taken prohibited discriminatory action against a worker, contrary to section 151 of the Workers Compensation Act (the Act). The firm was ordered under section 153(2) of the Act to pay the worker's wage loss no later than February 27, 2009. The firm did not pay the worker's lost wages by that date. On March 16, 2009, the Board cited the firm for failing to comply with a Board order under section 115(1)(b) of the Act.
Company: Artistic Sign Service Ltd., Kamloops
Classification unit: Sign installation, service, or repair
Amount: $11,156
Date of penalty: June 16, 2009
This firm repeatedly failed to ensure that a fall protection system is used where a fall of 3 m (10 ft.) or more might occur. It also repeatedly failed to provide workers with the instruction and supervision necessary to ensure their health and safety.
Company: B.Q.R. Systems Ltd., Coquitlam
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $2,949
Date of penalty: June 9, 2009
This was a repeated violation. Workers were working without fall protection at a height over 7.5 m (25 ft.). This employer failed to adequately train and supervise workers and to ensure the use of fall protection equipment.
Company: Coast to Coast Roofing & Rubbish Removal Ltd., Vancouver
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $5,000
Date of penalty: June 3, 2009
This was a repeated violation of the fall protection requirements. This employer also failed to provide proper instruction, training, and supervision.
Company: Authentic Roofing Inc., Surrey
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: May 28, 2009
This was a repeated fall protection violation. Two workers were working 5.5 m (18 ft.) above grade on a roof with a slope of 4:12, with no fall protection system in place.
Company: Mortlock Enterprises Ltd., Sechelt
Classification unit: House or other wood frame general contracting, construction, or renovation work
Amount: $6,043
Date of penalty: May 21, 2009
This employer prevented or dissuaded a worker from reporting injuries and filing compensation claims with WorkSafeBC.
Company: Tom Hayes Scott, Burnaby
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: April 22, 2009
This employer failed to submit a compliance report after being repeatedly instructed to do so.
Company: Perry Alexander Rink, Surrey
Classification unit: Framing or residential forming
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: April 20, 2009
This firm's worksite did not have adequate work platforms (only 25 cm or 10.5 in. wide when the Regulation requires a width of 50 cm or 20 in.) around the interior wall forms of a condominium building being used to place concrete. A worker was also placing concrete while walking along a narrow whaler of the forms about 0.5 m (2 ft.) above the work platforms. The work platforms were 3 m (10 ft.) above grade. The worker placing concrete was not using a fall protection system.
Company: Dominion Roofing Ltd., Vancouver
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: April 2, 2009
Three of this firm's workers were working without fall protection on a roof with a 6:12 slope at about 5, 5.5, and 6 m (16, 18, and 20 ft.) above grade. This was a repeated violation.
Company: Dominion Roofing Ltd., Vancouver
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: April 2, 2009
This firm's owner was working without fall protection on a roof with a slope of 4:12 or less, about 7 m (22 ft.) above grade, and was seriously injured after falling from the roof. This was a repeated violation.
Company: Dominion Roofing Ltd., Vancouver
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: April 2, 2009
Three workers were installing asphalt shingles near a building's roof edge, about 6 to 8 m (20 to 26 ft.) above grade. The sloped (5:12) roof, which was unguarded, was wet from a light rain. None of the workers were observed using any kind of fall protection system. In addition, the ladder used to access the roof was unsecured and did not extend sufficiently above the roof edge. This firm has a history of fall protection violations, and the fall protection violation in this case was high risk.
Company: NJ Roofing Ltd., Surrey
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $5,000
Date of penalty: March 19, 2009
This was a repeated violation of the fall protection requirements.
Company: Accurate Roofing Ltd., Vancouver
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $10,160
Date of penalty: March 19, 2009
Two of this firm's workers were working on a roof without using fall protection. One was working 3.5 m (11 ft., 6 in.) above grade on a 4:12 slope, while the other was working at 4 m (14 ft.) above grade on an 8:12 slope. This was a repeated violation.
Company: Donovan Management Ltd., Vancouver
Classification unit: Industrial, commercial, institutional, or highrise residential general contracting or construction
Amount: $1,066
Date of penalty: March 18, 2009
This was a repeated violation of fall protection requirements. Two workers were stepping from an elevating work platform onto a roof that was about 6 m (20 ft.) above grade. The two workers joined a third worker in stripping formwork within 4 m (13 ft.) of the roof edge. There was no fall protection system in place.
Company: Taj Roofing Ltd., Burnaby
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: March 9, 2009
Three of this firm's workers were working on a 6:12 sloped roof that was about 6.5 m (22 ft.) above grade. None of the workers were using fall protection. This was a repeated violation.
Company: Island Roofing Inc., Prince Rupert
Classification unit: Low slope roofing
Amount: $5,000
Date of penalty: March 4, 2009
Three of this firm's workers were working on a 4:12 sloped roof that was about 5 m (17 ft.) above grade. None of the workers were wearing fall protection. This was a repeated violation.
Company: Fraserview Terrace Ltd., Surrey
Classification unit: House or other wood frame general contracting, construction, or renovation work
Amount: $1,000
Date of penalty: March 4, 2009
This firm showed repeated non-compliance with section 3.16(1)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. It did not take steps to address first aid requirements despite being instructed and having received numerous orders.
Company: Fraserview Terrace Ltd., Surrey
Classification unit: House or other wood frame general contracting, construction, or renovation work
Amount: $11,326
Date of penalty: March 4, 2009
Serious injury. This firm violated section 119 of the Workers Compensation Act and section 4.55 of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. A worker sustained serious lower back injuries when he fell through an unmarked, unsecured floor opening 4.5 m (15 ft.) to the concrete floor below.
Company: Fraserview Terrace Ltd., Surrey
Classification unit: House or other wood frame general contracting, construction, or renovation work
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: March 4, 2009
This firm showed repeated non-compliance with section 20.81(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. It did not ensure that an excavation was certified as "safe to enter" by a registered professional engineer before allowing workers to enter into it. The excavation was about 4 m (14 ft.) deep, and there was a spoil pile beside the excavation that was about 2 m (6 ft.) high.
Company: Jas Construction Ltd., Surrey
Classification unit: Framing or residential forming
Amount: $28,738
Date of penalty: March 2, 2009
Two of this firm's workers were working without fall protection near the unguarded edge of a building. The distance from the edge of the third floor to the ground was about 6 m (20 ft.). This was a repeated fall protection violation.
Company: Pattar Roofing Ltd., North Vancouver
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: December 9, 2008
This was a repeated violation of the regulation requiring the employer to ensure a fall protection system is used where a fall of 3 m (10 ft.) or more might occur.
Company: Rykon Construction Management Ltd., Kelowna
Classification unit: House or other wood frame general contracting, construction, or renovation work
Amount: $22,226
Date of penalty: December 2, 2008
Fatality. This firm failed to establish and maintain a system or process to ensure compliance with the Workers Compensation Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. A worker was fatally injured after falling about 8 m (19 ft.) from a single-family house under construction.
Company: Devon Richard Knapfl, Courtenay
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $3,034
Date of penalty: November 14, 2008
This firm repeatedly failed to use a fall protection system where a fall of 3 m (10 ft.) or more might occur. Although aware of the requirements, the employer was on the edge of the roof without fall protection.
Company: Gurinder Chohan Construction & Framing Ltd., Surrey
Classification unit: Framing or residential forming
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: November 6, 2008
Multiple violations. Three violations within a seven-month period were identified pertaining to the failure to provide a stairway with framing, treads, and a handrail to each floor level before proceeding with construction of the next floor or deck surface.
Company: Norco Enterprises Ltd., Surrey
Classification unit: Industrial, commercial, institutional, or highrise residential general contracting or construction
Amount: $6,638
Date of penalty: November 3, 2008
This firm repeatedly violated the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, section 20.79(1). Steps were not taken to locate underground utilities before excavating. An excavator operator working for the firm contacted a 25-kV underground electrical conduit, exposing himself and another worker to the danger of electrocution.
Company: North American Pile Driving Inc./Griffiths Pile Driving Inc., New Westminster
Classification unit: Pile driving
Amount: $23,573
Date of penalty: November 6, 2007
Serious injury. This firm failed to ensure that adequate safe work procedures relating to lock out were developed and provided to its workers for performing maintenance on a cement mixer truck auger. That violation constituted the firm's failure to ensure its workers had adequate training, instruction, and supervision to ensure their safety.
Company: Murrin Construction Ltd., Whistler
Classification unit: Blasting or avalanche control
Amount: $200,000
Date of penalty: August 7, 2007
Fatality. During road construction, this firm failed to adequately instruct, direct, and supervise workers and to ensure that safe work practices were followed as required during blasting operations. In particular, the firm permitted a blaster to proceed with unsafe work practices in preparing and attempting to fire a blast. The firm failed to prepare, maintain, and ensure adequate written blasting procedures. Attempts to fire a blast were made using, first, a flashlight battery and then a truck battery. Further, a previously discarded and damaged firing line was used to connect the power source with the explosives. Continuity in the firing line was tested using a 12-volt light bulb taken from a rock truck. During these tests on the firing line, the blast detonated. A blaster within the blast area was fatally injured. Other workers were in the area impacted by fly rock but escaped unharmed.
Company: Waco Holdings Ltd., Campbell River
Classification unit: Land clearing, excavation, or site surface preparation
Amount: $8,881
Date of penalty: June 11, 2007
This firm showed repeated non-compliance with the requirements for instruction, training, and supervision of workers.
Prior Penalties for 2009 in Date Order
Company: Apex Electric Ltd., Surrey
Classification unit: Electrical work
Amount: $5,306
Date of penalty: April 23, 2009
Repeated violations. This firm failed to ensure that its workers were wearing appropriate personal protective equipment. Workers were observed without hard hats and safety footwear.
Company: Rychter P. Construction Ltd., Surrey
Classification unit: House or other wood frame general contracting, construction, or renovation work
Amount: $5,980
Date of penalty: March 16, 2009
Repeated violations. One of the firm's workers was observed working without fall protection on the top plate of the exterior front wall of a home. The distance from the worker's position on the roof to the ground was about 7.3 m (24 ft.). The pitch of the roof where the worker was standing was about 12:12. In addition, the building's balconies about 3 m (10 ft.) above grade lacked both guards and guardrails.
Company: Nelson Stanley Hanson, Comox
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $7,101
Date of penalty: March 10, 2009
This employer repeatedly failed to ensure a fall protection system was used by workers exposed to the risk of a fall greater than 3 m (10 ft.).
Company: Paras Roofing Ltd., Richmond
Classification unit: Low slope roofing
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: March 9, 2009
Repeated violations. The firm's principal and two workers were installing slate tile roofing 3-7 m (10-23 ft.) above grade without adequate fall protection.
Company: Paras Roofing Ltd., Richmond
Classification unit: Low slope roofing
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: March 9, 2009
Repeated violations. This firm's principal and two workers were working on steep sloped roofs about 7.3 m (24 ft.) above grade without fall protection.
Company: Paras Roofing Ltd., Richmond
Classification unit: Low slope roofing
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: March 9, 2009
Repeated violations. This firm's principal and two workers were working on steep sloped roofs about 7.3 m (24 ft.) above grade without fall protection.
Company: Paras Roofing Ltd., Richmond
Classification unit: Low slope roofing
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: March 9, 2009
Repeated violations. This firm's principal and two workers were working on steep sloped roofs about 7.3 m (24 ft.) above grade without fall protection.
Company: Mega Empire International Enterprise Ltd., Richmond
Classification unit: Finishing carpentry
Amount: $3,250
Date of penalty: February 26, 2009
High-risk violations. Workers were performing dry grinding and cutting of granite countertops without effective respiratory protection. This activity exposed the workers to high levels of airborne crystalline silica dust, which is directly associated with the disease silicosis. The employer also exposed its workers to a high risk of injury through a lack of guarding on grinding and cutting equipment, and numerous electrical hazards.
Company: Valley Ridge Holdings Ltd., Chilliwack
Classification unit: House or other wood frame general contracting, construction, or renovation work
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: February 26, 2009
Repeated high-risk violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. Workers without fall protection performed framing tasks 5.5-5.8 m (18-19 ft.) above grade. Other workers without fall protection were exposed to a fall hazard of 6 m (20 ft.). Workers without safety eyewear used pneumatic power nailers and power skill saws. A worker in an extended aerial lift had no personal fall arrest system. Stairways were either missing rails or lacked them altogether. The prime contractor demonstrated an ongoing failure to coordinate occupational health and safety at a multi-employer workplace. The total impact of all ongoing violations presented a high risk of serious injury or death to workers.
Company: Valley Ridge Holdings Ltd., Chilliwack
Classification unit: House or other wood frame general contracting, construction, or renovation work
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: February 26, 2009
Repeated high-risk violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. Workers without fall protection performed framing tasks 5.5-5.8 m (18-19 ft.) above grade. Other workers without fall protection were exposed to a fall hazard of 6 m (20 ft.). Workers without safety eyewear used pneumatic power nailers and power skill saws. A worker in an extended aerial lift had no personal fall arrest system. Stairways were either missing rails or lacked them altogether. The prime contractor demonstrated an ongoing failure to coordinate occupational health and safety at a multi-employer workplace. The total impact of all ongoing violations presented a high risk of serious injury or death to workers.
Company: Valley Ridge Holdings Ltd., Chilliwack
Classification unit: House or other wood frame general contracting, construction, or renovation work
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: February 26, 2009
Repeated high-risk violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. Workers without fall protection performed framing tasks 5.5-5.8 m (18-19 ft.) above grade. Other workers without fall protection were exposed to a fall hazard of 6 m (20 ft.). Workers without safety eyewear used pneumatic power nailers and power skill saws. A worker in an extended aerial lift had no personal fall arrest system. Stairways were either missing rails or lacked them altogether. The prime contractor demonstrated an ongoing failure to coordinate occupational health and safety at a multi-employer workplace. The total impact of all ongoing violations presented a high risk of serious injury or death to workers.
Company: Jas Construction Ltd., Surrey
Classification unit: Framing or residential forming
Amount: $18,680
Date of penalty: February 23, 2009
One of the firm's workers sustained fatal head injuries when he fell about 8.8 m (29 ft.) from the roof of a third-storey townhouse complex. The worker had been wearing a fall protection harness but had not been secured to an anchor system. The worksite had no site-specific fall protection plan. This firm failed to provide its workers with the information, instruction, training, and supervision necessary to ensure their health and safety while working.
Company: Brian David Downie, Prostarr Roofing BC Ltd., Burnaby
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $3,250
Date of penalty: February 19, 2009
Two workers were standing and working close to an unguarded roof edge on a sloped roof about 6 m (20 ft.) above grade. No fall protection system was being used. One of the workers was the firm's owner.
Company: Select Roofing Ltd., Burnaby
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $4,353
Date of penalty: February 12, 2009
Repeated violations. Five of the firm's workers were working about 8.5 m (28 ft.) above grade. None of these workers had fall protection at the time of the officer's inspection. These workers were not aware of the fall protection requirements, and their supervisor was not on site.
Company: S & J Framing Ltd., Richmond
Classification unit: Framing or residential forming
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: February 11, 2009
The firm owner was observed without fall protection, standing on a single truss about 6 m (20 ft.) above grade and 0.6 m (2 ft.) from the structure's edge. This was a repeat violation of the fall protection requirements.
Company: 0726784 B.C. Ltd., Surrey
Classification unit: House or other wood frame general contracting, construction, or renovation work
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: February 10, 2009
A subcontractor's worker suffered fatal injuries in a fall of 8.5 m (28 ft.). This prime contractor of a multiple-employer workplace failed to ensure the coordination of occupational health and safety activities of employers, workers, and other persons at the workplace.
Company: David Matthew Scholten, West Vancouver
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $3,591
Date of penalty: February 4, 2009
This firm showed repeated non-compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation as related to protecting workers from falls of 3 m (10 ft.) or more and to ensuring proper instruction, training, equipment, and supervision for fall protection.
Company: David Matthew Scholten, West Vancouver
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $3,591
Date of penalty: February 4, 2009
This firm showed repeated non-compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation as related to protecting workers from falls of 3 m (10 ft.) or more and to ensuring proper instruction, training, equipment, and supervision for fall protection.
Company: SD2 Framing Inc., Vancouver
Classification unit: Framing or residential forming
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: January 26, 2009
The firm owner was working on a work platform 3.2 m (10.5 ft.) above grade without any form of fall protection. Also, window openings on the main and second floors were not equipped with guardrails, potentially exposing workers to fall hazards between 3-3.7 m (10-12 ft.). This firm has a history of repeated violations of the fall protection requirements.
Company: Darren Smaill, D & D Enterprises, Coquitlam
Classification unit: Siding, awning, or gutter installation, service, or repair
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: January 20, 2009
Repeated violations. One of the firm's workers was working without fall protection on a roof that was 6 m (20 ft.) above grade.
Company: South Island Homes Ltd., Saanich
Classification unit: Steep slope roofing
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: January 13, 2009
Repeated violations. Two workers were carrying out re-roofing work at about 7.6 m (25 ft.) above grade without fall protection. The firm had two previous orders for fall protection violations.
Company: Dave Leslie Rozzano, Port Alberni
Classification unit: Siding, awning, or gutter installation, service, or repair
Amount: $8,545
Date of penalty: January 6, 2009
One of the firm's workers was working within the limits of approach of a 25-kV overhead power line. The firm's worker had not been informed about the potential electrical hazard before being permitted to work in proximity to the energized power line.
Company: Harbour Quay Homes Inc., Port Alberni
Classification unit: House or other wood frame general contracting, construction, or renovation work
Amount: $5,054
Date of penalty: January 6, 2009
Repeated violations. As prime contractor for this multiple employer worksite, the firm was issued orders under section 118(2) of the Act for repeatedly failing to ensure that the health and safety activities of employers, workers, and other persons at the worksite were properly coordinated, and for failing to do everything reasonably practicable to establish and maintain a system to ensure compliance with the Act and Regulation. In this instance, a worker for one of the subcontractors on site was found within the limits of approach of a 25-kV overhead power line.
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