WorkSafeBC reports increase in workplace fatalities

VANCOUVER — WorkSafeBC says it received multiple reports of workers killed on the job last month.

WorkSafeBC says one forest management worker in northern B.C. was using an all-terrain vehicle on a remote forest service road and was found dead under the A-T-V by searchers at the bottom of a trail after failing to check in at the end of their shift.

It says another fatality reported last month involved a tugboat operator in the Lower Mainland who was killed when the vessel sank, an incident now being probed by the Transportation Safety Board.

The worker safety organization says 181 workers were killed in B.C. in 2022, up from 161 the year before.