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WorkSafeBC inspecting Interior wineries, brew pubs and cideries
With summer fast approaching and COVID-19 protocols still in place, WorkSafeBC will be conducting pre-season…
Few B.C. workers get compensation for catching COVID-19 on the job
With 30 to 40 per cent of new COVID-19 cases being transmitted in workplaces in…
WorksafeBC dealt with more than 4,000 COVID-19 claims
More than 4,000 claims have been filed with WorksafeBC by workers who say they got…
WorkSafeBC has filed hundreds of orders against companies in violation of COVID-19 regulations
If workers or customers feel unsafe in stores, offices or on constructions sites because they…
Mother of teen who died at work ‘astounded’ by $8,400 fine to employer
Two years after her son died in a preventable workplace accident, a Kamloops mother says…
Kamloops tire shop fined $8,400 for violations that led to teen’s death
Brendan Stokes was 19 years old when he went to work for Kamloops Tirecraft and…
U-Haul fined $71,000 after workers find asbestos during Kamloops building reno
A moving equipment and storage rental company has been fined more than $71,000 after workers…
Penticton car wash fined $2,500 in workplace death
PENTICTON – WorkSafeBC has levied a fine against a Penticton car wash in which a…
Downtown construction road closures creating headaches for existing merchants
KELOWNA – New construction downtown is showing some growing pains for existing businesses trying to…
Kamloops councillor handed eight safety violations after stores robbed
KAMLOOPS — A Kamloops business owner and city councillor is still picking up the pieces…
19-year-old man dies in Kamloops workplace accident
KAMLOOPS – A young man has died following a workplace accident in Kamloops. The 19-year-old…
Kamloops manufacturing company fined $25,000
KAMLOOPS – A local manufacturing company is facing a hefty fine after a worker was…
Outdoor workers face risk of heat stress with hot temperatures
OKANAGAN – With temperatures potentially soaring into the high thirties this week, WorkSafe B.C. is…
Laundry worker barely survived crush incident at Kelowna General Hospital
KELOWNA – Frantic efforts by coworkers to free a trapped laundry worker and then his…
Kamloops worker shot in chest with nail gun did not have access to instruction materials
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops construction company must better inform its employees on the use of nail guns after a man accidentally shot himself in the chest last month. According to WorkSafe B.C. inspector Vince Strain, a worker on a Columbia street construction site was trying to attach a brace on architectural trusses with a nail...
Worker in critical condition after shooting self with nail gun
KAMLOOPS - It is believed a worker shot himself in the chest with a nail gun at a construction site on Columbia Street West Wednesday morning. A WorkSafe B.C. investigator was dispatched to inspect a construction site at 275 Columbia St. West May 6, after a worker allegedly shot himself in the chest with a...
Employee killed at Fountain Tire identified
KAMLOOPS - The name of a 36-year-old man who died in a work-related incident at Fountain Tire on Tuesday, Jan. 27 has been released. He was Nicklas Jay Kristen Taylor, of Kamloops, according to the B.C. Coroner's Service. The worker was fatally injured when he was unloading a trailer-load of tires and became trapped by a...
WorkSafeBC investigating technician’s fall at Sagebrush Theatre
KAMLOOPS - WorkSafeBC is investigating a technician's serious fall during the intermission of Peter and the Starcatcher at the Sagebrush Theatre on the evening of Dec. 5. Catrina Crowe, a spokesperson for the Western Canada Theatre, says the investigation will review all of the extensive safety procedures the company and Sagebrush Theatre has in place...