Two companies that were involved in a series of crane-related incidents in 2024 and 2025, including an incident at Oakridge Park that resulted in the death of a construction worker, have been fined.

WorkSafeBC has issued a total of $1.3 million in fines to EllisDon Corp. and Newway Concrete Forming.

EllisDon has been fined $515,000 and Newway $113,000 in connection with the death of Yuridia Flores, who was killed when a crane’s load came crashing down and hit her at the Oakridge construction site at Cambie and 41st Avenue on Feb. 21, 2024.

EllisDon was the prime contractor at the high-rise construction site, while Newway Concrete Forming was the provider of the concrete formwork service at the site.

“A concrete forming subcontractor was using a tower crane to lift a flytable from one f

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