Canada Energy Regulator orders Trans Mountain to prove safety procedures, orders contractor to stop using trench boxes after worker death in Edmonton
The Canada Energy Regulator (CER) has dispatched inspectors and ordered Trans Mountain Corp. on Friday to prove it has safety procedures in place for trench boxes, a type of equipment involved in a worker’s death in west Edmonton this week .
© Ian Kucerak Edmonton Police Service officers were on scene of a workplace incident involving a crane at a Trans Mountain pipeline worksite at Winterburn Road and Whitemud Drive on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020.
CER on Friday ordered Trans Mountain to ensure its contracted company SA Energy Group immediately stops using trench boxes until it can demonstrate that the company can use, assemble, and disassemble them safely. Trench boxes are a type of protective construction equipment used to protect workers from pressure and weight of soil and prevent cave-ins.
The regulator also ordered Trans Mountain to undertake a “root cause analysis” of how the death occurred, fix the errors, and take action to prevent similar incidents, and to confirm it has a process for training workers in using trench boxes safely along the entire length of the Trans Mountain expansion project.
“The company must also confirm that it has the inspectors and oversight capability to adequately oversee high-risk project activities for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, and if there are any identified gaps, it addresses them,” reads a Friday news release from CER.
A man died after being caught and pinned under a cross beam of a trench box that was being disassembled by a side boom operator and three other labourers, according to an initial report provided by Trans Mountain to CER. Emergency medical services were called to the incident near Whitemud Drive and 215 Street around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Alberta Occupational Health and Safety is leading the investigation into the fatality.
CER on Friday ordered Trans Mountain to ensure its contracted company SA Energy Group immediately stops using trench boxes until it can demonstrate that the company can use, assemble, and disassemble them safely. Trench boxes are a type of protective construction equipment used to protect workers from pressure and weight of soil and prevent cave-ins.
The regulator also ordered Trans Mountain to undertake a “root cause analysis” of how the death occurred, fix the errors, and take action to prevent similar incidents, and to confirm it has a process for training workers in using trench boxes safely along the entire length of the Trans Mountain expansion project.
“The company must also confirm that it has the inspectors and oversight capability to adequately oversee high-risk project activities for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, and if there are any identified gaps, it addresses them,” reads a Friday news release from CER.
A man died after being caught and pinned under a cross beam of a trench box that was being disassembled by a side boom operator and three other labourers, according to an initial report provided by Trans Mountain to CER. Emergency medical services were called to the incident near Whitemud Drive and 215 Street around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Alberta Occupational Health and Safety is leading the investigation into the fatality.
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