WorkSafeBC says a worker killed at the massive Oakridge Park development site in Vancouver last year when a mould used for concrete fell 26 storeys should never have been able to stand where she was.
A report released by the province’s worker safety agency says “several critical safety failures” are to blame for the death of Yuridia Flores at the site in February 2024.
The accident resulted in about 1,700 workers being evacuated from the five-million-square-foot project that is a partnership between developers Westbank and QuadReal Property Group. It was among a series of crane accidents in Vancouver last year.
The report says CCTV footage revealed there were “no
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