Incident investigation reports
This page includes findings of WorkSafeBC investigations as identified in incident investigation reports. These are here to help employers and workers understand the factors that contribute to workplace incidents so similar incidents can be prevented from happening in the future. Some of these findings also provide recommendations to industry to prevent future incidents, and the information here may be useful when gathering industry trends.
Under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, personal identifying information has been removed from the reports posted here. The findings may also have been shortened to focus on the main cause of and contributing factors leading to the incidents shared here.
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Incident investigation report summaries
Faller fatally injured by limb-tied tree
Date of incident: July 2015
Notice of incident number: 2015136960134
Employer: Tree falling company
Incident summary
Blocked fuel tank ventilation system led to explosion, injuring worker
Date of incident: August 2015
Notice of incident number: 2015163050120
Employer: Log-hauling company
Incident summary
Worker crushed following collapse of log-yarding system
Date of incident: April 2016
Notice of incident number: 2016166960010
Employers: Cable or high-lead logging company; timber-harvesting...
Window-washing pole contacted power line, electrocuting worker
Date of incident: July 2016
Notice of incident number: 2016120030012
Employer: Window-cleaning company
Incident summary