Three companies have been fined a total of $184,000 following a WorkSafeBC investigation into an incident at the University of Victoria that saw a worker near the top of a rebar tower fall to the ground as it collapsed.

The agency found "high risk safety violations" on the part of Bird Construction GP Limited, Viking Reinforcing and A.R.M. Reinforcing, who were all involved in the project.

The collapse took place June 8 during the construction of a new engineering lab at the University of Victoria and caused traffic in the area to be closed for several hours.

Although one worker was involved, the agency says no injuries were reported.

CBC News has reached out to all the companies named in the investigation.

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