Lesson learned -Crane Incident

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Lesson learned -Crane Incident

FYIP

Jan. 22, 2008

BRADLEY FEHR

Investigators study the scene

of a January 21 crane incident that claimed the life of a 22-year old crane

operator. The young man was working on the Canada Line rapid transit expansion

project in Vancouver on a bridge spanning the north arm of the Fraser River

at the time of the tragedy.

Mobile-crane operator dies

on the job at Canada Line rapid-transit project

Gilbert

Staff Writer

The operator of a mobile crane

working on the Canada Line rapid-transit project in Vancouver died after

his nine-tonne crane tipped over and the cab was crushed.

There are conflicting reports

as to how the 22-year-old man died while operating the crane about midway

along a bridge deck under construction over the Fraser River.

One version of the events leading

up to his death said he was hoisting a load of materials onto the bridge

deck. In a slightly different account, he was delivering a bucket of material

from the main deck on to a pedestrian walkway that was under construction

below.

In both accounts, the operator

died when the centre of gravity of the crane shifted and it toppled over.

The operator was trapped in the cab and subsequently died. No one else

was injured in the incident.

The Vancouver police got their

first report just before noon on Jan. 21 about the incident at the South

Vancouver end of the Canada Line, which is under construction over the

North Arm of the Fraser River. The Vancouver fire department’s high-angle

rescue team tried to climb up to recover the body; however, a bigger crane

had to be brought in to lift the crane from the deck of the bridge and

get the body of the worker

out.

The man was certified by the

company to operate a crane and had been working on the project for about

five months. He was registered to be assessed for certification from the

B.C. Association for Crane Safety.

Vancouver police and fire investigators

were on the scene, along with the coroner and officials from the provincial

WorkSafe BC program. Work has been halted on that section of the project

until on-scene investigations are completed.

Up until 2007, crane operators

did not require any certification to work in the province. More than 10,000

people have since registered for a new WorkSafeBC requirement for provincial

certification.

The Canada Line is a 19.5-km

rapid transit line connecting downtown Vancouver with the City of Richmond

and Vancouver International Airport (YVR). The project has an estimated

design and construction cost of approximately $1.9 billion (2003 dollars)

and is the largest public-private partnership (P3) yet to be implemented

in Canada. It is also the first rail P3 in North America.

InTransit BC, which is a single-purpose

entity formed to implement the project, has an engineering, procurement

and construction agreement with SNC-Lavalin Inc. SNC is responsible for

the design and construction of the project.

Regards

" Accidents are not due to lack

of Knowledge but failure to use the knowledge we have "