{"id":559637,"date":"2026-03-25T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559637\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:50:12","slug":"coroner-worksafebc-investigating-death-at-vancouver-island-construction-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559637\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner, WorkSafeBC investigating death at Vancouver Island construction site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Coroner, WorkSafeBC investigating death at Vancouver Island construction site<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 10:00 pm Tuesday, March 24, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The BC Coroners Service confirmed they are investigating a death that occurred at a construction site on Ash Road in Saanich on Monday, March 23.<\/p>\n<p>According to WorkSafeBC, they were notified of a \u201cserious workplace incident\u201d in the 1700-block of Ash Road at around 12:30 p.m., and they are still investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe purpose of our investigation is to identify and understand the occupational health and safety factors that contributed to the incident, so that similar incidents can be prevented in the future,\u201d noted an emailed statement from WorkSafeBC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/2126342694830304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Social media footage<\/a> shows a large response from the fire department and police at what seems to be a small construction site in front of a home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coroner, WorkSafeBC investigating death at Vancouver Island construction site Published 10:00 pm Tuesday, March 24, 2026 The BC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-559637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}