WorkSafeBC has issued more than $1.2 million in fines to Ontario-based construction giant EllisDon Corp. for three separate crane-related safety violations, including a fatal one at Vancouver's Oakridge Mall development in 2024.

Prime contractor EllisDon was fined almost $515,000 for the February 2024 incident that killed Yuridia Flores , a mother of two from Mexico

Concrete formwork provider Newway Concrete Forming was also fined almost $113,000 in the case, according to a WorkSafeBC bulletin issued Friday.

B.C.'s workplace regulator said Newway was using a tower crane to lift a flytable (a pre-assembled structure or mould used to form concrete, often flooring) from one floor to another.

But when the rigged flytable was being pushed, the regulator says “it accelerated out of the sid

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