WorkSafeBC has fined three Victoria employers for a total of $184,000 following a structural collapse at the University of Victoria that occurred on June 8.

Bird Construction GP Limited, Viking Reinforcing and A.R.M. Reinforcing were all fined for “high-risk safety violations.”

The collapse happened while a worker was near the top of a rebar tower with two attached walls. WorkSafe BC determined that the structure was not supported according to standing practice, and as a result, when the tower collapsed, the worker was brought down with it.

WorkSafeBC also found that there were no written instructions from a professional engineer regarding the bracing of the tower.

Bird Construction GP Limited, the prime contractor at the construction site where the collapse occurred, was fined $140,20

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