WorkSafeBC says it is investigating a crane incident in Vancouver’s Oakridge neighbourhood, two days after new provincial regulations for tower cranes came into effect.
A spokesperson said in an email that the workplace safety agency had been notified of an incident in the 600 block of West 41st Avenue at about 2 p.m. PT Wednesday. The address is the site of the huge Oakridge Park redevelopment.
WorkSafeBC sent an officer to the site and is investigating what happened. It said it would not release specific details of the incident until its investigation is done, but no injuries were reported.
It’s the latest in a wave of crane mishaps across Lower Mainland construction sites, including a fatal incident at the Oakridge site in February, when a worker was killed after a tower crane dropped its load onto a building that fell onto a person below, killing them.
Last week, a mechanical failure of a construction crane …