Masonry contractor dinged with $8k fine over safety violation
Failure to have fall protection in place at a Port Coquitlam job site resulted in WorkSafeBC fining a construction company $8,868 recently.
Workers for P&M Masonry & Construction Ltd. were doing the exterior brick work on an apartment building at 2352 Shaughnessy Street when an inspector arrived on Jan. 2.
There were two workers about 20 feet above the street without fall protection in place, according to the WorkSafeBC inspection report.
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“One worker was on the unguarded balcony of the third floor and the other worker was on metal framed scaffolding that did not have guardrails installed,” the inspector stated.
When the inspector called to the employees, the worker on the fourth level of the metal scaffolding crossed a two-foot gap between the scaffolding and the third-floor balcony.
The inspector was told there was no supervisor on site. There were also no harnesses, ropes, anchors or other fall protection equipment on site, according to the report.
The inspector issued a stop-work order.
As of Jan. 7, all of the issues had been remedied and the stop-work order was cancelled.
The five-storey, 30-unit apartment building was approved by Port Coquitlam council in 2023.
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