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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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If you would like to see the final incident investigation report for a particular incident, you can submit a request in writing to our Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Office. You may submit a Request for Access to Records Form (form 11M7) or mail a letter to:
Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Office
WorkSafeBC
PO Box 2310 Station Terminal
Vancouver BC V6B 3W5
Incident investigation report summaries
Worker seriously injured by fly rock during blasting operation
Date of incident: March 2022
Notice of incident number: 2022161750005
Employer: Road construction company
Incident summary
Title
Large fans broke and pieces fell onto worksite
Date of incident: April 2022
Notice of incident number: 2022169730037
Employers: Concrete and cement manufacturer; industrial maintenance...
Title
Worker died when overcome by carbon monoxide in confined space
Date of incident: December 2021
Notice of incident number: 2021116110028
Employer: Construction company
Incident summary
Title
Worker fatally injured in fall from bowling alley attic
Date of incident: December 2021
Notice of incident number: 2021131490044
Employer: Bowling alley
Incident summary