British Columbia’s health and safety agency for workers has imposed a hefty fine on BC Ferry Services Inc., over the death of one of its workers in June 2020.
A statement on the WorkSafeBC site says a fine of $674,445 was imposed last month.
It says one of the firm’s employees was doing work on a ferry that was docked for maintenance in Richmond.
The worker leaned onto a fabric webbing panel that broke away when he was trying to retrieve an item floating in the water, and he drowned.
The agency says the worker wasn’t wearing a life-jacket and the fabric panels were insufficient at stopping him from falling into the water below….