Incident Investigation: Worker Falls Down Ventilation Shaft | WorkSafeBC
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- This video recreates an incident at a highrise construction site in British Columbia where a worker died after falling 30 feet down an unguarded ventilation shaft.
Using animation and photos from the worksite, this incident investigation slide show depicts the events and underlying factors that led to the incident. It describes how the lack of an appropriate fall protection system directly caused the incident.
It also shows the importance of effective communication, safe work procedures, risk assessment, planning, and supervision when working at heights.
Construction employers in B.C. can use this video to educate their workers on safety procedures and risk awareness around falls from elevation.
Read the incident investigation report summary at www.worksafebc.com/en/resourc....
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro & personnel onsite
0:38 Shaft dimensions & hazards
1:06 Safe work procedure developed & hazards assessed
2:11 Worker falls down vertical shaft
2:48 How can we prevent falls at height?
3:07 Cause & analysis
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After watching a few of these videos, I have learned a couple things:
1) Never be Worker 1
2) If you work for Firm B or C, never do a job at Firm A
3) Never work at a site where they add lights post-incident
@@ZorbaTheDutch
4) Profit.
Best comment.
4) If you're doing a job that's going to have you be the anonymous worker in a WorkSafeBC video, maybe quit
lmaoo
Fall protection. A lightbulb and a fucking mattress on the floor.
Obligatory statement of recognition and surprise.
I bet it was terrifying when he didn't feel the ground on his step off the edge. All while in the dark. Poor dude, especially when a light would've saved him.
Ikr it's like some scooby doo shit
light solves nearly everything. Also, not walking into the dark.
😆😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣
No one's talking about the fact Worker 3 came within under a metre of dying identically to Worker 1
That's very true. He used his cell phone light, which is what I would have done. Unfortunately, Worker 1 probably thought the part he fell down was more debris, which lead to his death. He died doing a good thing.
That type of accident happens alot, where the rescuer becomes a causality. Especially in confined spaces with a lack of oxygen. Worker passes out and 2nd worker goes in to get him and also passes out.
No one's talking about the fact that your PFP is an eggplant
Really upsetting to think about the families or kids impacted by a mere accident. Anything can happen at any given moment and someone can be taken away without any last words or goodbyes. Very humbling.
Or potentially landing on worker one, reviving him in the process
Headlamp would have saved his life you can't count on safety officers and superintendents to keep you alive .
conantdog you can't trust any fail safe the only thing you can trust is yourself I'm afraid.
why would he need a head lamp? he was only supposed to work in the sunlit area under the grates.
(and not in the pitch black area as there is a great big deadly fall there)
One of the basics rules in any jobsite is that you are responsible for your own safety but any safety equipment is provided by the employer.
@@SilverMe2004 are you serious...
Seriously though who the hell walks down a pitch black vent tunnel with no light?
Poor guy he just wanted to find more debris to sweep up....
Ikr
My laziness would never put me in a situation like this🥲
Only to become the debris.
@@StudleyDuderight Nice 😎
@@StudleyDuderight SAVAGE
Umm, isn't the primary problem walking into the dark?
How dare you mention this type of Common Sense. No, much better to use big lawyer-like wording like "Field Level Hazard Assessment" and "Inadequate Risk Assessment" and have 25 safety and communications procedures instead of someone using their BRAIN.
Yea I don't make much sense, first day on the job no flash light kinda strange, someone just walking around in the dark I wonder how he cleaned it if he couldn't see anything. Sad go to work to support your loved ones and never come home
No. He was only supposed to work in the sunlit area under the grates.
(and not in the pitch black area as there is a great big deadly fall there)
considering how many times this question got asked I figured that the top comment (at the time of posting) could have a repeated answer
There has to be a common sense factor to this .And for one reason or the other it went way out the window long time.
yeah, he went to look if there is any more debris in total darkness, and after the job was finished.
Even if the shafts were not intended for human occupation, the responsibility of the designer should have been highlighted. They should have installed a gate at that end.
Caution tape next to the ladder they were not supposed to go past would have been normal and sufficient.
Yep. Or even just some damned railings?????!!!! Shit and dangerous design WHAT IS THIS STAR WARS?
A gate will only protect people who don't have access, assuming that worker 1 did have access, he would've just felt around for the keyhole in the dark and he'd still fall off after. What they should do is they should install grates instead
@@ericcartman1328 maybe he didn’t expect it to be the DAMNDED RANCOR PIT in there
@@user-me1mv4vy9q but then the grates couldn’t be stepped on without an inspection
I feel like they need to change the music on this video.
"Worker 1 fell into the pit and f*cking died" *heartwarming music playing*
i didn’t find it heartwarming, i found it sad
Damn that gave me a good laugh
Thought the same exact thing I'm like why are we celebrating? 😂
Was going to comment on the music too. Maybe given the subject matter no BGM would be more appropriate.
What do you want? "Wah-wahhh"
This is awful: Worker 1's last words would have been something like "I'm going to go find some more dust to sweep up", and his last acts involved sweeping up dust in the dark, and looking for more dust to sweep up in the dark.
I think what makes this so tragic is the fact that the guy spent most of the day doing a boring job in poor conditions, abandoned by the people who were meant to be keeping him safe, but worst of all, the thing that killed him was his eagerness to do the job properly, or to go above and beyond. If he'd half-arsed it and just got out of there, he'd have survived.
my thoughts exactly. this is a devastating story
Your absolutely right. As a laborer myself I appreciate that. Did my best to keep guys safe thru the years. Especially the new, young "green" guys.
and what's worse is that eventually he'll be dust...
You really put it into perspective.
That is life. don't like it? do something about it. I wish I could.
After watching several of these videos, I have to say this “Firm A” seems like a very dangerous company to work for!
😂😂😂
🤣 stop
Lol
😓
@@kaprory Rory the racing carrr
LMAOOOOOO crying-while-laughing-emoji
people died
That phone flashlight saved the life of him. He was only 2 feet away from having the same fate was worker 1
Thank you I didn’t watch the video
He was subsequently fired for using his phone while on the clock.
@@josephfrechette9916 seriously??
@@josephfrechette9916 sorry
@@llama_rahma He's obviously joking lol
The CSO was worthless...
Lack of sufficient light, lack of oversight, lack of sufficient planning, lack of barriers, lack of sufficient training, lack of proper instructions. That’s a lot of fails.
Sounds also like a bit of lazzyness
The biggest fail of all is, they spent all that time, money, effort, paperwork, to develop all this bull crap when they literally could have prevented it with a 10-dollar flashlight
I guarantee the CSO had no idea there was a 30 foot shaft even down there. Probably too busy swiping right in the office trailer to check out the task.
"Oh, they were only supposed to work between the ladders." Yeah, cover yer ass. Howzabout, "Hey, dudes, at this end is a 30 foot drop! Watch yourself!"
it was 'need to know' and as long as they stayed where they were told, then they 'didn't' /s /maybe
@@SilverMe2004 seems pretty need to know to me.
Nah you tell them why so they know
Management doesn’t know that stuff, all they know is sit in the mobile mini crying about hard hats and safety vests
"Oh, hey. Yall *only* supposed to work in this *specified* area"
"*Oh, JUST IN CASE; theres this 30 feet drop at this end, so watch yourself now*"
Seriously, did no one thought of that, *knowing* that theres a hazard in the operation area?
How hard would it have been just to let the workers know of said hazard, if not only JUST for the 3 dudes working there??
Sigh. Rest in peace, "Worker #1"
Put a damn railing in the vent
@Georgie Dubs Or just dig deeper...
Are you a rocket scientist?
@@anonymousprepper1463 Better idea.
@@alexwatson5507 what does that do with comment?
They went with the Palpatine safety standards to save a buck
That "THUD" sound effect was brutal.
The real problem with those labour ready workers is how hard they are pushed. They get yelled at to work faster and any talk of their safety is just lip service to meet regulations.
As a union tradesman treated with a bit more respect by my employer I always feel bad watching those people get treated like crap by incompetent foreman who are themselves pushed too hard and not given enough workers.
I agree with you 100 % accident happens at work for being rush and yelling all the time to get the stupid job done fast ,when shit happens nobody knows what happen why the worker was hurt or death
you lil girls
Silentsam7532
has nothing to do with a labor worker, this could happen to anyone!
A
Yup and they are brainwashed into parroting it's all about pride...and they brag about their benefits. It's all love and family only when someone is making money and they throw a feel good speech to make them feel better about their overworked and underpaid jobs
@@nightcrawleronthegostr1894 guess u like being a underpaid slave
i cant find any info on any company called firm A. must of gone out of business
Must be because they had so many work accidents...
Let's hope they went out of business. L&I probably got tired of all the claims filed.
What caused this accident is poor lighting .They where in a dark shaft cleaning it with know light,so , how clean do ya think they got it ? Hot rod construction work got this man killed. If the shaft had been lit up this accident wouldn’t have happened.
Know light, know peace.✌️
And that 30ft shaft drop should have been barricades off properly. Lighting aside it was reckless to not inspect that area entirely.
A horizontal shaft isn’t a shaft, it’s a duct.
My car's driveduct broke 😎
@@xavierrodriguez2463 lool🤣
When my shaft turns into a duct, it’s because I’m feeling kinda frisky.
@@xavierrodriguez2463 lmao u killed him
Elevator duct lol
Just use a damn flashlight
he prob didnt knew there was a hole there
flashlight would have shown it...
laughfaster1
Howabout... "Hey boss, no lights no work..." ?
@Anonymous5253 he said would, not wouldn't.
Flashlights make light. They let you see whats around you. If you can actually see a big gaping hole in the middle of the floor, you probably won't step there.
Man I’m really down this rabbit hole. First the quicksand vid, the ice rink with the 3 workers, the tree that fell on a worker, and now this lmao
🍻 ⭐ 🤝
Same
just watched the ice rink vid, this was next up lol
One of the 11 fatalities that took place during my 6 month cruise aboard a U.S. Aircraft Carrier was a Sailor failing from the "Island" structure because someone left a floorplate off 50+ feet in the air. Given that carriers at night have very few lights above decks, most of them red and its hard as hell to see. Sad way to end one's life for a STUPID mistake.
...11? 😱
11?!
11 fatalities? Jesus Christ. That’s horrendous, I’m sorry
11 Fatalities?! Is that an average number for this time period?
Failing from the island structure bro what?
As a former firefighter and certified confined space rescue operator, I would not have signed off on that work, based on lack of light alone.
at least put some netting over there if you are going to be too cheap to give them flashlights.
Exactly. This wasn't about incompetent laborers, this was about NO lighting in the horizontal duct.
As a foreman, I've always, always inspected the work area with the workmen that are going to do the job, even if (in my case) it means climbing down manholes full of shyte.
Once the work is completed, I do another inspection, if only to make sure no tools have been left behind.
That was a lazy inept foreman.
Did they not tell him there was a vertical shaft? Apparently not! Great idea, lets send a guy down there and not tell him there's a 30ft sheer drop.
WorkSafeBC always has the best production value with their safety videos (seriously). Even the music score is tinged with just perfect amount of sobering melancholy. Step up your game OSHA!
Chris H "Even the music score is tinged with just the perfect amount of sobering melancholy." 😂👏🏼👏🏼 What a great comment! So true though.
And yes I agree I'm in USA and WorkSafeBC has the best videos of this type. I don't even work a labor job, I just watch these to learn personal safety lessons that could save my life or someone else's.
@@Syclone0044 I watch them out of morbid curiosity...
USCSB also has good safety videos
You mean OSHAT. lol
Could you imagine how terrifying it would be to walk into a dark shaft and then one of the walls is gone and you lose your balance and fall to your death?
Have light with you! Carry a pen light.
Stay fit and free forever
Refuse to enter a dark space...! Period. My body won't let my feet move in pitch black unless of course I'm running for my life
R.I.P. "Worker 1"
I worked 33 years in a sawmill. In that time I saw a major change in safety. Proceedures we regularly did
( and management required us to do so) when I started would later become a firing offense. When people think of sawmills , obviously it s easy to assume that is where most accidents occur. By far most injuries were caused by what we call pinch points. Placing fingers or hands where rollers close and crush or lining up cylinders with shackle and using fingers to aline both holes where a pin fits. Cuts from changing saws and knives and not wearing correct PPE.
I saw a lot of changes in my time that almost eliminated traditional sawmill injuries but nothing can replace common sense and taking time while preforming maintenence tasks. A headlamp would have allowed the man to see hazard which should have had a rail to prevent a fall.
Take time before doing any maintenence to have all PPE
( personal protective equip.
Gloves, eye protection, headlamp ect. ) Don t let anyone push you into hurrying to prevent downtime and doing something unsafe.
Hindsight is 20/20 but proper planning may have prevented this fatality. Thankfully in my career we never had one.
Why would he walk into the dark if he couldn’t see ? they said he was checking for more dirt to clean ?
Though alot of people take this as a joke, these offer VERY important lessons
How do you know this was in Canada? The guy said "hold on eh. I'm going to go look for more work to do."
and do it in the dark...
Then ya get done sooner 💡
Contracts are bid and paid flat rate, you get the same whether you do it in a week or a month.
This background music is nice. It reminds me of something I would hear at a high end department store at a nice mall
I usually take a flashlight when exploring dark caves.
Well this might sound crazy, but they were not in a cave, they were on a *job site*
RIP Worker 1. You were the light of our lives.
lmao
If he was that light, he would have illuminated the darkness and seen the dropoff.
Poor guy could have been saved so easily. Rip.
5 years later im seeing this but man…thats depressing. At least he taught us a valuable lesson. RIP
I’m a retail worker, could you make a video on safety while handling annoying customers?
As a Union Laborer, I’m the worker thats sent into the vents to clean the debris. This is sad and I hope his family is doing ok. RIP
The RUclips algorithm is just like: 'Yeah he will literally watch anything'
Some of us have to manage idiot subcontractors
I think what really strikes me about accidents like this is how utterly senseless they are. To lose your entire life because no one illuminated a hazard, or bothered to tell you about it, is just awful. Safety's so important because the consequences of an accident are just never worth neglecting it.
This is truly a tragedy. Ive been on several construction sites (to install TV's mid construction). And the amount of safety procedures these guys go through are a lot, and they're usually on top of it.
Doesn’t matter, he had his hard hat and safety glasses on, that’s the main thing, ask any dim witted safety officer!
Workers should be told to do their own risk analysis every time, even though one has already been done by their supervisor. As an example: i'm a train driver, i once had to do an emergency braking for two workers who were measuring something on my track in a no visibility, high speed curve. When they saw my train speeding towards them, they jumped to the side and were visibly scared. After i stopped past them i went to ask them what they were doing. They said their boss asked them to measure things there but didn't provide any safety measure or personnel. Think for yourselves people, your boss isn't the one who dies if he rushes or ignores the risk analysis...
I came in thinking it was those safety briefing videos but realized it was a post accident report. So sad and tragic :(
Stick your arm out and think
That's how close worker 2 came to probably dying.
They were literally working in a dark environment with no headlamps or artificial light, just the light coming through the grates.
That’s sad, I hate when the safety guy comes around telling me to put on my safety glasses but I do understand why we need safety rules in place. Unfortunate for this guy
I heard of a similar incident. Workers were working in a tunnel that had a drop off. A worker fell by walking off the deck because it was dark & he couldn't see the drop off. Since that time they starting using barricades to physically keep people from falling off the deck.
i feel like sometimes workers don't take enough time to consider their own safety because they trust that someone above them has already double checked all the hazards. at least this time it was quick. RIP dude.
Lack of lighting is probably the biggest ignored safety hazard in construction..the Electrical contractor will say, not my responsibility and the safety officer is too busy enforcing safety glasses and hard hat regulations..
What I find most shocking is that there really are ventilation shafts large enough for people to move through... I thought this was only in movies because I've only seen smaller ventilation systems.
Why on earth would you need a net, a light would have 100% prevented this.
The light would have prevented this but you need the net in case a worker tripped for some reason.
First of all, I would say the leading cause of this incident was inadequate lighting. Had the workers been using some temporary lighting like headlamps or string lights they would have been able to see the vertical shaft leading to the parkade. As this is not normally a place where people go to perform work it makes sense that the vertical duct would not have any sort of protective guards around it. Had the worker been wearing fall protection things would have worked out a lot better as well. It also would have been better to access the lower portion of the shaft and climb up into the horizontal portion rather than down from the top. Makes things much safer
Does it really make sense? Because someone died. Lmao.
knowing the 30ft shaft was there, the first thing they should have done, bare minimum was put up caution tape at that end of the tunnel. just that alone probably would have kept him from just blindly walking.
A portable light source would be a nice thing. Can anyone invent something?
Dying at work has to be the worst, just trying to provide for yourself and family and this happens
Bro, those are actual pictures of the job site and that’s crazy. Rip to the guy
Rest in peace :(
Anyone else just bingewatching WorkSafeBC and USCSB videos?
As per worksafebc this is a confined space, however it seems there was no confined space hazard assessment performed, and the day labourers did not have confined space entry training.
I was wondering when that 30ft shaft would come into play.
The presence and location of the fall hazard should have been communicated clearly among all involved.
Also, lights should have been used - the grate covered passage is still dim.
Also, it is indeed best to plan and survey at least the day before. Last minute planning causes mistakes.
Fall protection was heavily emphasised in this analysis and would have helped, but I’d hope the idea would be to prevent a scenario where an inadequately informed worker falls down a shaft in the dark.
I’m not an expert btw, I just have an industrial job that may involve tasks like this during maintenance periods.
the direct cause wasn't "lack of fall protection system". It was that there was no lighting and he didn't know it was there. Herp derp
"Inadequate risk assessment". Most people don't even know what that is or how to perform risk assessment nowadays. 1. Hire competent people instead, save more lives that way.
Competency goes south when even skilled workers are complacent. Complacency KILLS people.
1: why was this in my recommendations
2: why did I watch it
3: never be worker 1
Bottom line is, "The shaft should of had safety bars, etc installed already." The guy doing the initial safety inspection should be safe too.
Rip Worker 1. You were the best Worker
If it was too dark to see, why did the worker continue into the darkness?
Sad to here of someone's death, especially when it could have been prevented. RIP.
Rip worker one
He went to dark end of the shaft to pee.
the* dark end
Such an avoidable death. Who ever told them to do that should be charged
Don’t walk in the dark in an unknown area.
This is Captain Hindsight's favorite channel.
So sad when you consider how many hard working, fairly low paid workers die or suffer life changing injuries from falls at height.
All of them completely 100% avoidable.
I was supervisor for a small firm that worked on ceilings above empty swimming pools.
The nob of a boss sent me on a three week comprehensive working from height health and safety course and then expected me to ignore everything I had learned because it slowed the job, cost to much in protective equipment etc.
Needless to say I did not hang around to become his scapegoat when the defecation hit the fan.
Last I heard a fitter was allowed to carry on working whilst the rest of the team were on break.
He was on tower scaffolding without stabilisers and overreached, tipped it up and broke his ankle.
He was apparently very lucky that the scaffold leaned over onto a wall and slid/collapsed slowly.
Even though it was an 6hr drive back to the work base he was clocked off at the time of his accident.
Aight hol up imma just go feel around in the dark over there for any debris don’t bother grabbing me a flashlight
video: man fucking dies from a 30ft fall
music: 😃😃😁😆
I have no idea why this was recommended to me, but I swear that I will never clean near a ventilation shaft in my life.
My procrastination always leads me to these videos
lol the music just makes the tragedy seem less impactful
Charles Balliet lol
The music just adds the perfect little touch.
-Muah!- chef kiss
I love the narrator’s voice and the way she talks. It’s very pleasant to listen to. If she’s narrating my osha30 class right now i wouldn’t be falling asleep half the time.
Whoever signed off on that shaft not having a railing should have to answer some very hard questions
Two questions:
Why are the firms not named? In USCSB videos, every participant is named.
Why are the measurements in imperial? Isn't Canada supposed to be metric?
Decimal inch is king.
Rest in peace 🪦
me: i should go to sleep
youtube: construction safety video?
me: yep
His willingness to go above and beyond got him killed...
What was the music track used? It's so soothing.
flashlight and/or headlamp, bruh. I'm just some weirdo who explores storm drains and I know better.
Thomas Simpson Underground URBEXers often carry oxygen alarms.
How did you get into that? Where do you live?
Gas leaks. Sewage gotta be safe
Imagine wanting to do a good job, and making a simple mistake doing so, kills you.
That's absolutely terrible.
Wish they explained exactly what to happened to the body of the victim, and if snapped his neck, shattered his spine, etc
The Foreman should have climbed down into the shaft to physically show these workings their task for the day and to review the hazards so that they could get a plan together.
He would have seen that it was too dark to work, located the shaft after getting light, and showed them the area where they needed to work.... they should have NEVER been left by themselves! Ever.
Lighting should’ve been used and or a safety bar several feet from the vertical shaft
Guess this was suggested out of nowhere, is this video saying i may need light and fall protection soon?
Imagine what he was thinking when falling “well, this is it...”
2:17 Very safe instruction on what you should do when you see darkness ahead
"... and RAN TOWARDS the west end"
This took place at metrotown burnaby