{"id":654848,"date":"2026-05-08T00:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654848\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:26:09","slug":"metro-vancouver-fined-170k-after-worker-hurt-during-water-main-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654848\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Vancouver fined $170K after worker hurt during water main operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Metro Vancouver has been fined about $170,000 after a worker was seriously injured during &#8220;high-risk violations&#8221; while working on a water main in New Westminster two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>WorkSafeBC\u00a0says in a news release that it issued the penalty to the regional district on March 12 after one of two workers helping lift gearboxes off a water main valve was injured when one gearbox &#8220;released and lifted forcefully upward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It says the gearboxes were being lifted out of a confined space using a crane, and the workers were inside the space using pry bars, on March 15, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>WorkSafeBC\u00a0says it identified several high-risk violations, including a failure to plan and identify hazards before conducting the operation.<\/p>\n<p>The board says Metro Vancouver did not make sure health and safety activities were coordinated and also failed to develop written procedures to reduce the risks working in confined spaces.<\/p>\n<p>The violations also included the lack of an adequately trained supervisor on-site, and the workers&#8217; lack of adequate training in such situations.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-654848","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\/654848","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=654848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}