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The fatalities reported here represent worker deaths that occurred in the year indicated and that have been compensated by WorkSafeBC (the Workers’ Compensation Board of B.C.). Accepted fatality claims include both injury fatalities and work-related disease fatalities. Currently, there are 87 deaths that have occurred in 2007 and have been compensated.

Fatality information may be updated as a result of changes and appeals. The information presented here is not official data (which is based on the year in which compensation began rather than the year the fatality occurred). Official data are provided in the Annual Report of WorkSafeBC.

Fatalities


2007 (updated January 8, 2008)

Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Pipe fitter
Location : Central Interior
ID Number : P0B.916.NN2.7CG
Date of Death : 2007-Nov

A retired pipe fitter recently died of mesothelioma. He had worked in metal refining for 40 years, where he was constantly exposed to asbestos in materials such as asbestos cloth, asbestos pipe insulation, and asbestos sheets for furnace maintenance.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Wood products worker
Location : Northern BC
ID Number : P0B.8Z6.N82.BZR
Date of Death : 2007-Oct

A worker was feeding a multi rip saw when a 4-foot-long 2x8 kicked back, causing fatal injuries.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (asbestosis)
Occupation : Cement and plaster worker
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P0B.8Z6.M02.T95
Date of Death : 2007-Mar

A cement and plaster worker recently died of asbestosis. He had been exposed to airborne asbestos in the 1950s through 1970s, while dry mixing asbestos materials with cements and plasters, as well as applying asbestos-containing materials to ceilings and on metal lath and plaster interior finishes.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Plumber
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P0B.866.Y12.GH6
Date of Death : 2007-Nov

A worker recently died of mesothelioma after about 35 years of employment with plumbing and heating firms. During the 1980s and 1990s, he had worked mainly on heating systems in older buildings. Although precautions had been taken, he was exposed to asbestos during the work of opening walls and removing asbestos insulation from around pipes.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Construction worker
Location : Central Interior
ID Number : P0B.8Z6.LD2.1GR
Date of Death : 2007-Oct

A construction worker was fatally crushed when a tilt-up concrete perimeter wall fell over. The wall, which was 6 inches thick, 9.5 feet high, and 30 feet long, fell over when it was struck by the bucket of a stationary tractor.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Natural gas appliance serviceman
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P0B.8Z6.MX2.ZZC
Date of Death : 2007-Oct

A worker was on a service call at an apartment building when he and five other people were murdered.
Cause of Death : Injuries (MVA)
Occupation : Moving company owner
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P0B.8Z6.L52.15H
Date of Death : 2007-Aug

As a commercial truck was travelling on a bridge on-ramp, it broke through a railing and landed upside down on the road below. The driver of the truck died.
Cause of Death : Injuries (MVA)
Occupation : Office worker
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P0B.916.T92.P74
Date of Death : 2007-Apr

An office worker died in a motor vehicle accident while en route to a work-directed evening course.
Cause of Death : Injuries (MVA)
Occupation : Oilfield contract operator
Location : Northern BC
ID Number : P0B.8Z6.NN2.ZLK
Date of Death : 2007-Mar

A 5-ton flatbed truck was travelling on a highway behind another truck with a wide load during a snowstorm. As the flatbed truck attempted to pass the truck with the wide load, it struck two oncoming pickup trucks. The second pickup was hit head-on, killing the driver.
Cause of Death :
Occupation : Truck driver
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P0B.546.332.XSH
Date of Death : 2007-Sep

A transport truck and trailer overturned at a bend on a highway. The rig slid into the concrete barriers at the edge of the road. The cab was crushed, fatally injuring the driver.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Carpenter
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P0B.3K6.232.6XT
Date of Death : 2007-Sep

A carpenter recently died of mesothelioma. He had been exposed to airborne asbestos in the 1960s while cutting asbestos sheets and while spraying asbestos insulation onto pipes and ceilings.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Telecommunications worker
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P0B.246.M02.JZS
Date of Death : 2007-Sep

A telecommunications worker employed in the warehouse and in sales recently died of mesothelioma. He had been exposed to asbestos while working in buildings that underwent renovations, including asbestos remediation, in the 1960s and 1970s.
Cause of Death : Drowning
Occupation : Fisherman
Location : Northwest BC
ID Number : P0B.0D6.ZT2.VJX
Date of Death : 2007-Jul

A fisherman was working alone on a gillnet fishing boat that did not have guardrails or a lifeline. He fell into the water. The fishing boat was discovered adrift with no one on board. Later, the fisherman's body was found in the water.
See a hazard alert poster about this incident:
http://www2.worksafebc.com/Publications/posters.asp?ReportID=34641
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Owner/operator
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P0B.3K6.4X2.SHX
Date of Death : 2007-Jul

A worker was fatally injured while charging the battery of a vehicle.
Cause of Death : Injuries (MVA)
Occupation : Truck driver
Location : USA
ID Number : P0B.3K6.8V2.Q3Z
Date of Death : 2007-Jun

A truck driver from BC was killed in a motor vehicle accident while working in Washington.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Newspaper carrier
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P0B.3K6.6D2.N22
Date of Death : 2007-Sep

A newspaper delivery worker was startled and fell onto pavement when a dog barked inside a house. The worker later succumbed to injuries sustained in the fall.
Cause of Death : Injuries (MVA)
Occupation : Dump truck operator
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P0B.3K6.622.NG0
Date of Death : 2007-Sep

A rigid-frame off-road truck was dumping a load of crushed rock over the top of a spoils pile at a quarry. When the edge of the pile gave way, the truck flipped over onto its roof. The operator, who was trapped inside, died of his injuries.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Mechanic
Location : BC
ID Number : P0B.156.P62.GCC
Date of Death : 2007-Sep

A worker who recently died of mesothelioma had been exposed to airborne asbestos dust while working on brakes. He worked as a mechanic on skidders and other equipment for more than 40 years.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Bulldozer operator
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P0B.4C6.H52.7VN
Date of Death : 2007-Aug

A bulldozer was pushing gravel on a newly constructed access road for a private residence when it slid approximately 70 feet down a 60 percent sidehill. The operator of the bulldozer was fatally crushed.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Former mill worker
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P0B.0G6.4B2.JZT
Date of Death : 2007-Aug

A retired worker recently died of as a result of exposure to asbestos from heavy equipment and machinery in a mill. He had worked at the mill during the summers while studying at university.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Resort maintenance worker
Location : Central Interior
ID Number : P0B.0K6.PX2.0Q4
Date of Death : 2007-Aug

At a resort, a worker was working alone, using a horse to remove logs from trails that needed clearing. A log being hauled by the horse apparently disturbed a wasp nest in the brush on the ground. The distressed horse struck the worker on the side of the head, causing fatal injuries.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Yard worker/forklift operator
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.ZW6.P52.N0Q
Date of Death : 2007-Aug

A worker was using a pallet jack to move a rack of glass panels weighing approximately 2,400 pounds. The pallet jack was not intended for this task, as it had to lift the rack off-centre. The unbalanced load fell over backwards, crushing the worker.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Power engineer
Location : BC
ID Number : P09.X06.BP2.KCS
Date of Death : 2007-Aug

A retired worker recently died of mesothelioma. He had been exposed to airborne asbestos dust while working as a power engineer at a number of industrial sites for almost 40 years. For example, when working on pipes or boilers, he stripped away asbestos lagging and cut asbestos pipe lining.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : School principal
Location : Central Interior
ID Number : P09.YJ6.4H2.GTP
Date of Death : 2007-Aug

A former school principal recently died of mesothelioma. He had worked in a number of schools while renovations, including asbestos abatement programs, were undertaken.
Cause of Death : Disease (cancer)
Occupation : Firefighter
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P0B.0N6.Q22.ZJB
Date of Death : 2007-Aug

A firefighter recently died of cancer. For 25 years, he had regularly been exposed to smoke, toxins, and carcinogens.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Production worker
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.YJ6.532.DL2
Date of Death : 2007-Jul

A production worker died when an undetermined substance exploded near the start of the production shift at a paint plant.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Delivery truck driver
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.VN6.HC2.RSZ
Date of Death : 2007-Jul

A worker recently died of mesothelioma. He had been exposed to airborne asbestos dust from brake relinings while delivering auto parts in the 1960s and 1970s.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Truck driver
Location : BC
ID Number : P09.TP6.NT2.C43
Date of Death : 2007-Jul

A retired truck driver recently died of mesothelioma. He had extensive exposure to asbestos from adjusting brake pads for more than 20 years.
Cause of Death :Asbestos exposure
Occupation : Electrician
Location : Vancouver Island
ID Number : P09.T46.LD2.40S
Date of Death : 2007-Jun

An retired electrician recently died of asbestos-related disease. He had worked in shipbuilding in the late 1930s through the early 1950s, when asbestos insulation materials were commonly applied without respiratory protection.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (asbestosis)
Occupation : Worker in wood furniture manufacturing industry
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.T46.JK2.S38
Date of Death : 2007-Jun

A worker who recently died of asbestosis had likely been exposed to asbestos during the 20 years he worked for businesses that made wood furniture.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Construction worker
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.TP6.P92.PMQ
Date of Death : 2007-Jun

A construction worker recently died of mesothelioma. Starting in the 1950s, he had worked for about 40 years spraying asbestos materials such as insulation. In the early years, the dangers of airborne asbestos dust were not known and no respiratory protection was used.
Cause of Death : Injuries (MVA)
Occupation : Trucker
Location : USA
ID Number : P09.TP6.N72.X2R
Date of Death : 2007-Jun

A trucker died while travelling back to BC when his loaded transport rig failed to negotiate a curve on a highway. The rig crossed the centre line, went over the barrier, and came to rest in a river.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Millwright
Location : Northern BC
ID Number : P09.Q16.TW2.999
Date of Death : 2007-Jun

A worker recently died of mesothelioma caused by exposure to airborne asbestos dust. He had been employed as a millwright in pulp and paper mills for more three decades.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Labourer
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.Q16.RK2.4V8
Date of Death : 2007-Jun

A worker died of mesothelioma after almost 40 years' exposure to asbestos in the construction industry.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (asbestosis)
Occupation : Master mariner
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.Q16.8V2.CNJ
Date of Death : 2007-Jun

A worker recently died of asbestos-related disease. He had been exposed to asbestos 30 years ago while working on an oil tanker. The asbestos was removed from the engine room in the 1980s.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure
Occupation : Industrial mechanic
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P0B.156.KY2.T4Z
Date of Death : 2007-Jun

A retired industrial mechanic recently died of lung disease. He had worked with asbestos lagging and insulation at a power generating plant.
Cause of Death : Injuries (MVA)
Occupation : Research scientist
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P0B.0G6.602.28B
Date of Death : 2007-Jun

A research scientist driving a car as part of his work died when the car struck a bus head-on.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Equipment operator
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.VN6.H02.CZZ
Date of Death : 2007-Jun

An equipment operator was setting up a tracked excavator to remove silt and mud from a wastewater settling pond at a gravel pit. The excavator lost stability and sank into the pond.
Cause of Death : Injuries (MVA)
Occupation : Steel construction foreman
Location : Central Interior
ID Number : P09.VN6.GN2.L6R
Date of Death : 2007-Jun

A worker recently died from complications of a spinal injury. He had been injured a few years earlier in a motor vehicle accident while he was working in steel construction.
Cause of Death : Injuries (MVA)
Occupation : Logging truck driver
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.VN6.H62.TMB
Date of Death : 2007-Jun

A driver was setting up his logging truck trailer, including attaching air lines, when the tractor-jeep-and-trailer started to roll downhill. The trailer ran over the driver.
See a hazard alert poster about this incident:
http://www2.worksafebc.com/Publications/posters.asp?ReportID=34633
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Wet finisher, marble and granite manufacture
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.VN6.H42.R0M
Date of Death : 2007-Jun

A young worker was assisting in a forklift operation when the forklift toppled over and crushed him.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Carpenter
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.VN6.HZ2.S2V
Date of Death : 2007-May

A former carpenter recently died of mesothelioma. He had been exposed to asbestos in the 1950s through 1970s while doing maintenance work at schools. His work included cutting asbestos sheeting.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Hotel cleaning worker
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.WX6.H02.Z6T
Date of Death : 2007-May

A worker who recently died of mesothelioma had been a cleaner in a hotel fom the late 1980s through the 1990s. During that time, renovations were done to remove asbestos-containing ceiling materials that had deteriorated.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (asbestosis)
Occupation : Carpenter
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.X06.BY2.6X9
Date of Death : 2007-May

A carpenter recently died of asbestosis as a result of working with acoustical ceiling tiles in the 1950s and 1960s.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : House cleaner
Location : Vancouver Island
ID Number : P0B.4C6.JN2.2QD
Date of Death : 2007-May

A nearly-completed residential construction project was being prepared for painting. A worker who was dusting walls and window mouldings fell through a second-floor unguarded floor opening to the tiled floor approximately 11 feet below.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Insulation installer
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.M26.6D2.HJC
Date of Death : 2007-May

A worker recently died of mesothelioma after years of exposure to asbestos-containing materials while installing insulation.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Quarry truck operator
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.SX6.XB2.CCP
Date of Death : 2007-May

A rock truck operator was outside the cab when the truck started to roll downhill. The operator hung on to the runaway truck as it travelled 190 feet down a road at a quarry site. When the truck hit a rock pile, it flipped over onto its side, crushing the operator.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Retail worker
Location : Northern BC
ID Number : P09.T46.QM2.7M6
Date of Death : 2007-May

A retail worker was exposed to asbestos during renovations and asbestos removal from a retail business. The worker had been employed by the same business for more than 30 years, from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Steam plant engineer
Location : Vancouver Island
ID Number : P09.T46.GZ2.YJ6
Date of Death : 2007-May

A steam plant engineer recently died of mesothelioma. He had been exposed to airborne asbestos dust for 30 years while working on steam and power plants in a pulp and paper mill.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Excavator operator
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.T46.CT2.SBV
Date of Death : 2007-May

A worker was using a forklift to pick up an excavator bucket. He was crushed when the forklift overturned on a sloped embankment.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Engineer/Engineman
Location : Central Interior
ID Number : P09.T46.CL2.N7D
Date of Death : 2007-Apr

An engineer was crushed when a runaway train derailed.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Log loader, marine transportation
Location : Vancouver Island
ID Number : P09.T46.8W2.VRQ
Date of Death : 2007-Apr

A worker was using a Jacob's ladder (rope or chain ladder) to climb from the bow of a stationary log barge to the deck of a towboat approximately 27 feet below. At some point during his descent, the worker fell and landed on the steel deck of the towboat.
Cause of Death : Injuries (MVA)
Occupation : Logger
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.TP6.M72.ZWG
Date of Death : 2007-Apr

A logger went out to assess snow conditions on a forestry road. His vehicle was located 50 feet down a steep embankment and he was found farther downriver from the vehicle.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Equipment operator
Location : Northern BC
ID Number : P09.JT6.5C2.HWW
Date of Death : 2007-Apr

Two workers were using a rubber-tired log loader to prepare the blade assembly (gravel spread cat) of a track-type tractor before attaching the blade to the tractor's "C" frame. One of the log loader's forks was used to prop up the blade. As the tractor operator attempted to manually position one of the blade's swing arms, the blade assembly shifted, causing the swing arm to rotate, striking the operator and pinning him to the ground.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Smelter worker
Location : Central Interior
ID Number : P09.WX6.G22.VCQ
Date of Death : 2007-Apr

A former smelter worker recently died of mesothelioma. During the 1960s and 1970s, he had been exposed to airborne asbestos in various parts of the plant.
Cause of Death : Disease
Occupation : Welder
Location : Northwest BC
ID Number : P09.WW6.Z92.7VB
Date of Death : 2007-Mar

A worker recently died of lung disease (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD). He had worked as a welder in a smelter where he was exposed to welding fumes, tar fumes, asbestos, chemicals, and dust.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Carpenter
Location : Central Interior
ID Number : P09.VN6.J82.WXJ
Date of Death : 2007-Mar

A carpenter recently died of mesothelioma. He was exposed to asbestos from the 1970s through the 1990s while doing maintenance work at a wood products mill.
Cause of Death : Injuries (MVA)
Occupation : Truck driver
Location : Northern BC
ID Number : P09.WX6.0N2.1BW
Date of Death : 2007-Mar

A truck driver got out to check his brakes and was struck by a passing motor vehicle.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Power engineer
Location : Central Interior
ID Number : P09.W86.QZ2.9PG
Date of Death : 2007-Mar

A former power engineer recently died of mesothelioma. He had been exposed to asbestos in the 1950s through 1970s, particularly when replacing asbestos gaskets in steam plants.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Construction foreman
Location : Vancouver Island
ID Number : P09.T46.NM2.N7Y
Date of Death : 2007-Mar

A foreman on a pile-driving site died from complications of a brain injury caused by an industrial accident more than 30 years earlier.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Labourer
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.SX6.XQ2.GNT
Date of Death : 2007-Mar

A worker was installing metal cladding over a layer of blanket insulation on the roof of a structural steel building. He stepped off the leading edge and fell through the insulation to the concrete floor approximately 16 feet below.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Logging camp watchman/caretaker
Location : Vancouver Island
ID Number : P09.JQ6.H92.5JM
Date of Death : 2007-Mar

Three workers left a logging camp in a crew boat to check on a boomman running a sidewinder boat in from another location. The weather was growing more severe, with visibility decreasing. After the boomman had been transferred into the crew boat, the workers attempted to return to camp but became lost/disoriented. The boat struck the shore, killing one worker and injuring the other three.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Garbage truck driver
Location : Vancouver Island
ID Number : P09.D56.2V2.N32
Date of Death : 2007-Mar

The operator of a garbage truck was attempting to unlock a refuse bin in front of the truck. The unoccupied truck rolled forward, crushing the operator between the steel bar of the lifting forks and the bin.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Shipbuilding worker
Location : Vancouver Island
ID Number : P09.WX6.2S2.WWJ
Date of Death : 2007-Feb

A former shipbuilding worker died of mesothelioma. In the 1950s through the 1970s, he had worked in an area where a paste of ground asbestos and polyester resin was applied to fibreglass. When the paste hardened, it was power sanded, and the air in the shop was then filled with asbestos dust. The dangers of asbestos were not well known in the early years, so personal protective equipment was not used.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (asbestosis)
Occupation : Insulation installer
Location : BC
ID Number : P09.W86.RT2.GQS
Date of Death : 2007-Feb

A worker who recently died of asbestosis had installed insulation for almost four decades, until he retired in the late 1980s.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Office worker
Location : Central Interior
ID Number : P09.W86.S32.TL1
Date of Death : 2007-Feb

A worker who died of mesothelioma earlier this year had worked in a school district office from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (lung cancer)
Occupation : Construction worker
Location : Central Interior
ID Number : P09.W86.RP2.H9W
Date of Death : 2007-Feb

A former construction worker recently died of lung cancer caused by asbestos. Because of construction practices in the past, he had been exposed to asbestos in materials for new construction and renovations as well as during demolition of old buildings.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Shipbuilding worker
Location : North Vancouver
ID Number : P09.W86.R62.L3X
Date of Death : 2007-Feb

A retired BC worker recently died of mesothelioma. He had been exposed to asbestos insulation around pipes in shipbuilding during the 1940s. He had also been exposed to asbestos in the ceilings and walls of a hospital where he worked as an electrician in the 1970s and 1980s.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Concrete truck operator
Location : Vancouver Island
ID Number : P09.W86.QS2.8HM
Date of Death : 2007-Feb

The operator of a concrete truck was found injured on the ground between the back of the concrete truck and the back of the concrete pump truck. The worker later died of the injuries.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Construction worker
Location : Vancouver Island
ID Number : P09.W86.QN2.NVB
Date of Death : 2007-Feb

A worker recently died of mesothelioma as a result of exposure to asbestos in the 1960s. He had worked on the construction of a pulp and paper mill, mixing asbestos with cement and applying it to the chimney, boiler room, and steam room.
Cause of Death : Cancer
Occupation : Firefighter
Location : Lower Mainland
ID Number : P09.VN6.J42.LDH
Date of Death : 2007-Feb

A retired firefighter recently died of cancer. For more than 30 years, his work had exposed him to smoke, toxic chemicals, gases, fumes, and asbestos.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Carpenter
Location : Central Interior
ID Number : P09.VN6.JD2.S41
Date of Death : 2007-Feb

A carpenter recently died of mesothelioma. He had been exposed to asbestos cement dust while cutting and replacing asbestos pipes (water mains) 30 years ago.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (asbestosis)
Occupation : Electrician
Location : Vancouver Island
ID Number : P09.VN6.JP2.JY3
Date of Death : 2007-Feb

A former electrician at a mine recently died of asbestosis. He had worked with wiring containing asbestos insulation in the 1980s and 1990s while doing maintenance.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Power engineer
Location : BC
ID Number : P09.VN6.JK2.T7L
Date of Death : 2007-Feb

A power engineer recently died of mesothelioma. He was exposed to asbestos in the 1970s and 1980s. While working on steam plants and on boilers, he had had to cut through asbestos lagging and insulation.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Supervisor, logging road construction company
Location : Vancouver Island
ID Number : P09.9Q6.RL2.MKT
Date of Death : 2007-Feb

A supervisor and a blaster were loading explosives in a rock quarry when a large cedar tree (29 inches in diameter, 107 feet tall) on a steep slope 85 feet above the quarry blew over and fatally struck the supervisor.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Fisher
Location : Northwest BC
ID Number : P09.M26.5K2.656
Date of Death : 2007-Feb

A worker was hooking up a trawl door when the door shifted. He was crushed between the door and the main stern roller.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Construction worker
Location : Central Interior
ID Number : P09.W86.QD2.VJW
Date of Death : 2007-Feb

A construction worker recently died of mesothelioma. He had been exposed to asbestos in the 1960s through 1980s while working on new construction as well as on the renovation and demolition of buildings that contained asbestos in such materials as boiler insulation.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Welder/machinist
Location : Central Interior
ID Number : P09.W86.Q02.2KK
Date of Death : 2007-Jan

A former welder/machinist in pulp mills died of mesothelioma. He had been exposed to asbestos while working in locations such as the boiler room during the 1960s and 1970s.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Truck driver
Location : Northern BC
ID Number : P09.BC6.DY2.WB5
Date of Death : 2007-Jan

A worker was crushed between a lowbed trailer and a grapple attachment for a front-end loader that he was attempting to unload.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Supervisor, Forestry company
Location : Northern BC
ID Number : P09.836.JC2.GTW
Date of Death : 2007-Jan

A worker was attempting to troubleshoot an operational problem with a ground skidder while the unit was running. The reverse drive in the unit was activated and the skidder ran over the worker.
Cause of Death : Injuries
Occupation : Skidder operator
Location : Central Interior
ID Number : P09.7P6.P82.ZB3
Date of Death : 2007-Jan

A worker who normally operated a skidder was falling birch trees. After the falling cuts in one tree had been made, the tree remained standing. Wedging tools were unavailable. The worker then bucked trees within one tree-length of the standing cut-up tree. The standing cut-up tree fell and struck the worker.
Cause of Death :Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Labourer and forklift driver
Location : Northern BC
ID Number : P09.T46.Q32.SK5
Date of Death : 2007-Jan

A former worker in a metal smelter died of mesothelioma. He had been exposed to many different asbestos products in the smelter in the late 1950s through early 1970s.
Cause of Death : Disease
Occupation : Miner
Location : Northern BC
ID Number : P09.T46.G62.MKH
Date of Death : 2007-Jan

A former hard rock miner recently died of lung disease caused by 40 years' exposure to respiratory irritants underground.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Carpenter
Location : Central Interior
ID Number : P09.SX6.Y22.3T2
Date of Death : 2007-Jan

A carpenter who worked at a metal refining plant for 25 years recently died of mesothelioma. He was likely exposed while changing asbestos curtains around the furnace hoods. In the early years at the plant, no protective devices were used to protect workers from airborne asbestos.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Millwright/industrial mechanic
Location : Vancouver Island
ID Number : P09.SX6.YG2.TL8
Date of Death : 2007-Jan

A retired worker recently died of mesothelioma. He had worked as a millwright/industrial mechanic for 30 years.
Cause of Death : Asbestos exposure (mesothelioma)
Occupation : Pulp mill worker
Location : Vancouver Island
ID Number : P09.SX6.YL2.KP1
Date of Death : 2007-Jan

A worker employed at a pulp mill in the 1970s and 1980s recently died of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.
Cause of Death : Injuries (MVA)
Occupation : Foreman
Location : USA
ID Number : P09.SX6.YP2.HQX
Date of Death : 2007-Jan

Driving back to British Columbia from a trade show, a worker died in a single-vehicle rollover.
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