Sask. man calls for changes to how victims of workplace injuries get compensated [Video]

SaskPower has been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for violating workplace safety rules, but the victim won’t receive any of the money.

“I think they owe me something. It’s kind of bulls***,” Blayne McKay told journalists outside Prince Albert Provincial Court on Thursday.

More than 60 per cent of McKay’s body was burned at a SaskPower site.

McKay was working for Flatlander Scaffolding — a company contracted by SaskPower to do work at the Island Falls Hydroelectric Station.

On May 9, 2022, he was left alone on a high-energy unit to take measurements.

When he put his tape measure in the air, a transformer arched.

“I got electrocuted 110,000 volts and then I burst into flames,” McKay told CTV News.

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