A substantially unredacted document that investigators filed in court outlines what police think happened. CBC’s justice reporter Kristy Nease has been following the case.
Police investigating one of the deadliest workplace incidents in Ottawa’s history believe a chain of negligent acts caused the explosion at Eastway Tank, Pump and Meter that killed six employees in 2022, according to a substantially unredacted document exposing new details that was filed in court.
The document also reveals that Ottawa police expanded the scope of the investigation into company owner Neil Greene by more than five years — all the way back to 2015 — to see how Eastway operated before, during and after the tenure of an employee who had improved safety at the company, and was later terminated.
The new details are contained in an information to obtain, or ITO, which Det.-Sgt. Michael Cathcart wrote in September 2023 to convince a judge …