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:
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Incident investigation report summaries
Workers struck by car speeding in traffic control zone
Date of incident: September 2021
Notice of incident number: 2021162930004
Employer: Paving company; traffic control company
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Worker seriously injured during work to replace power pole
Date of incident: June 2021
Notice of incident number: 2021181350012
Employer: Electric Utility
Incident summary
Transit worker struck, fatally injured
Date of incident: September 2021
Notice of incident number: 2021194940006
Employer: Transit service company
Incident summary
Worker fatally injured while unloading I-beams
Date of incident: October 2021
Notice of incident number: 2021189780002
Employers: Delivery firm; construction company (prime contractor)
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