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
Worker seriously injured when load shifted
Date of incident: May 2021
Notice of incident number: 2021178760016
Employer: Stone crushing firm; industrial construction firm
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Worker became seriously ill after rodent remediation
Date of incident: June 2021
Notice of incident number: 2021124800046
Employer: General retailer
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Orchardist fatally injured when tractor and mower rolled over
Date of incident: June 2021
Notice of incident number: 2021179030014
Employer: Orchardist
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Two workers splashed with ammonia mixture at poultry plant
Date of incident: June 2021
Notice of incident number: 2021165700013
Employers: Poultry-processing plant; commercial refrigeration company
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