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 rebar cage collapsed
Date of incident: March 2020
Notice of incident number: 2020174000043
Employer: Construction labour supplier, rebar firms (2), concrete...
Young worker crushed between log loader and embankment
Date of incident: November 2019
Notice of incident number: 2019156160017
Employers: Logging firms (3), sawmill
Incident...
Worker on lift died after elevated lift fell over
Date of incident: April 2019
Notice of incident number: 2019170660009
Employer: Sports facility
Incident summary
One worker died, two injured when vessel struck dock
Date of incident: December 2019
Notice of incident number: 2019155610019
Employer: Fish-farming company
Incident summary