Quebec’s workplace health and safety board says design failures led to a scaffold collapse that killed two workers and injured several others at a western Quebec paper mill in October 2021.
The Commission des normes, de l’équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail says in a report released today that an engineer working for Boileau & Associés—the company that designed the 16-storey scaffold—improperly calculated how much weight the platform could hold.
The safety board says the engineer—who is not named in the report—underestimated the load capacity of the scaffold by more than 25 percent, a difference of more than 4,000 kilograms….