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Penalties (continued) improper use of air as test medium; ineffective hose restraint methods; ineffective supervision; and failure to perform a comprehensive risk assessment for the task. Overall, the firm failed to ensure the health and safety of its workers, a high-risk violation of section 115(1)(a) of the Workers Compensation Act. DM Cabinet Doors Ltd. | $8,684.35 | Surrey | April 27, 2015 This firm, which operates a cabinet-making shop, repeatedly failed to comply with WorkSafeBC orders related to its installation and use of a dust-collection system. It also repeatedly defied stop-use orders for the system. The firm acted knowingly or with reckless disregard in failing to comply with WorkSafeBC orders, a high-risk violation. East Fraser Fiber Co. Ltd. | $65,235.12 | Mackenzie | May 29, 2015 This firm operates a finger joint manufacturing plant. A supervisor at the plant received a serious hand injury when he reached into a lumber-stacking machine to reposition a board and the machine cycled unexpectedly. WorkSafeBC investigated and found numerous violations of sections of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation dealing with de-energization and lockout and with access to and safeguarding of machinery. As well, during the investigation a prevention officer saw a worker driving a forklift without his seat belt on and with the cab doors open. These were high-risk violations, and all except the failure to wear a seat belt were repeated. The firm failed in general to provide its workers with the information, instruction, training, and supervision needed to ensure their health and safety. East Fraser Fiber Co. Ltd. | $65,235.12 | Mackenzie | May 29, 2015 This firm’s worker reached into a machine to clear a wood chip from a moving conveyor belt. He became entangled in the tail spool of the belt and sustained serious injuries to his arm. WorkSafeBC’s investigation found that the tail spool was missing its guarding. The firm failed to ensure that the conveyor belt was adequately safeguarded, a repeated and high-risk violation. Kone Inc. | $15,000 | Kelowna | March 30, 2015 This firm installs, maintains, and repairs elevators and escalators, work activity that exposes its workers to potentially harmful levels of asbestos. In November 2012, WorkSafeBC inspected the firm’s workplace and found that the firm lacked an exposure control plan (ECP) for preventing exposure to asbestos. Kone was ordered to submit a Notice of Compliance with section 6.3(1) of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, which requires a firm to develop and implement an ECP. Over the next year-and-a-half, WorkSafeBC officers repeatedly discussed ECP requirements with the firm. As of April 8, 2014, the firm had still not submitted an acceptable ECP. Murphy Oil Company Ltd. | $11,032.14 | Dawson Creek | May 12, 2015 This firm was using a mobile crane to perform a lift at a gas well when the crane tipped over, landing on the wellhead. WorkSafeBC inspected the incident scene and ordered the firm to acquire a documented, certified assurance from a professional engineer that the wellhead would not present a risk to workers during the crane recovery process. The firm was to obtain the assurance prior to recovering the crane. WorkSafeBC later learned that the firm had carried out the crane recovery without the required assurance, and that the wellhead had indeed leaked pressurized gas. The firm is being penalized for its failure to comply with a WorkSafeBC order, a violation of section 115(1)(b) of the Workers Compensation Act. T. S. Manufacturing Ltd. | $1,728.35 | Surrey | May 15, 2015 This firm operates a woodworking shop. In September 2014 and January 2015 WorkSafeBC ordered the firm to submit Notices of Compliance with various sections of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. By early May 2015 the firm had not complied. The firm is being penalized for its failure to comply with WorkSafeBC orders, a violation of section 115(1)(b) of the Workers Compensation Act. Urban Metals Ltd. | $7,500 | Port Coquitlam | May 6, 2015 This firm manufactures metal fences and railings. Since late 2013, WorkSafeBC had repeatedly ordered the firm to take measures to address health and safety violations at its workplace. Examples include fit-testing workers who are required to wear respirators, providing a local exhaust ventilation system, equipping hand-held grinders with protective hoods, and obtaining material safety data sheets for controlled products. By March 2015 the firm still had not complied. The firm is being penalized for its failure to comply with WorkSafeBC orders, a violation of section 115(1)(b) of the Workers Compensation Act. Primary Resources J. Sarver Trucking Ltd. | $8,274.73 | Dawson Creek | May 21, 2015 This firm’s new and young worker was helping another worker perform routine maintenance on a processing head (a machine used to cut down and de-limb trees). The head’s cutting arm operated unexpectedly, seriously injuring the young worker’s hand. WorkSafeBC’s investigation found that the firm’s lockout procedure for the processing head was inadequate and that the young worker had not been 36 September / October 2015 | WorkSafe Magazine
given specific training for the work activity. The firm failed to ensure the use and verification of lockout procedures as required by the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. This was a repeated and high-risk violation. Pass Creek Holdings Ltd. | $3,396.73 | Fruitvale | April 23, 2015 At a logging site, this firm instructed its young worker to attract the attention of a feller-buncher operator. The operator did not have a radio. The young worker entered the active falling area of the feller-buncher and was struck by a tree the feller-buncher was moving. He sustained serious injuries, including internal injuries. The firm failed to ensure that workers remained at least two tree lengths away from a tree being felled by a mechanical harvester. This was a high-risk violation committed knowingly or with reckless disregard. Service Sector Bobby (Bob) Darryl Perra / Treeworks Tree Care | $2,500 | West Vancouver | April 7, 2015 This firm’s workers were removing and chipping trees from a slope bordering a road. Two workers felled the trees downhill, allowing them to hang up in the lower standing trees. A third worker operating a bucket truck from inside the bucket would swing over to the cut trees, and attach a rope to one and to the fall protection anchor point in the bucket. He pulled until the cut tree came free. Each tree was then swung out over the ground behind the chipper, lowered, and disconnected. The worker in the basket was not using personal fall protection; none was available on site. He was exposed to a risk of falling 9 m (30 ft.). The firm failed to provide fall protection equipment, a repeated violation. Likewise, it failed to ensure that such equipment was used. These were both high-risk violations. Neither the fallers nor the bucket truck operator had received instruction or training for the work they were doing. Further, a representative of the firm had seen the boom lift being used for this work and had not intervened, even though the manufacturer’s instructions prohibited it. The firm failed to provide its workers with the instruction, training, and supervision needed to ensure their health and safety. Finally, no first aid attendant was on site as required for this type of work. These latter two failings were both repeated violations. Lewkowich Engineering Associates Ltd. | $5,117.39 | Nanaimo | May 13, 2015 This firm was contracted to prepare a hazardous materials survey for a site where pre-1990 buildings were scheduled to be demolished. The survey that the firm produced had various deficiencies, including failure to correctly identify the firm and the individual who collected the samples and to list the individual’s credentials to demonstrate he or she was qualified for such work. As a result, WorkSafeBC issued a stop-work order for the demolition site. The firm failed to conduct workplace exposure monitoring and assessment using acceptable occupational hygiene methods. This was a repeated violation. Mirae Investment Ltd. / Caledonia Mobile Home Park | $5,000 | Prince George | April 30, 2015 This firm owns a mobile home park where a water line to one of the trailers broke. WorkSafeBC observed the firm’s worker in an 2.5 m (8 ft.) deep excavation at one end of the trailer that had not been sloped, shored, benched, or otherwise supported as required. Water from the broken supply pipe was flowing into the excavation, causing the soil on the sides to slough in. The sloughing was undermining the supports of the trailer and the roots of a large tree. The worker was exposed to the risk of being seriously injured or killed if the excavation’s walls had collapsed or the tree or trailer had fallen or slid into it. The firm failed to meet the sloping and shoring requirements of section 20.81(1) of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, a repeated and high-risk violation. Sorrento Centre Anglican Church of Canada | $14,384.15 | Sorrento | May 29, 2015 WorkSafeBC investigated this firm’s workplace (the basement of an administration building) and found violations of asbestos-related health and safety regulations. The firm had allowed workers to access and perform work in an area where there was damaged and exposed asbestos without using adequate personal protective equipment or safe work procedures. The firm should first have ensured that all friable asbestos-containing materials were removed or enclosed so as to prevent the release of asbestos fibres. These designated high-risk violations may have exposed workers to asbestos, a known carcinogen. Til-Van Holdings Ltd. | $3,725.54 | Revelstoke | May 27, 2015 WorkSafeBC inspected this firm’s restaurant and found machinery that was not fitted with adequate safeguards, exposing workers to the risk of serious injury if they inadvertently contacted moving parts. The firm also did not have lockout procedures for cleaning and maintenance of machinery, exposing workers to a risk of receiving an electric shock or being caught in equipment if it activated. WorkSafeBC first ordered the firm to remedy these failings in January 2013. WorkSafeBC performed numerous follow-up inspections and issued the firm a warning letter, but as of February 2015 the firm had not complied. The firm failed to comply with the two outstanding orders within a reasonable time. Timmermans Landscaping Ltd. | $31,443.22 | Abbotsford | April 21, 2015 WorkSafeBC observed two of this firm’s workers, including a representative of the firm, operating tractors to landscape the grounds of a new condominium development. From time to time each worker would stop his tractor and climb down to unload plants from its September / October 2015 | WorkSafe Magazine 37
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