Ice drilling pits were ‘death waiting to happen’

“I expressed my concern and was told the scaffolding had to be checked the morning of the incident…but everything happened very quickly.”

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another incident

On the second day of the inquest, Michelle Theriot, a fellow worker and workplace health and safety officer who was there the day Bruno died, said on February 4, 2016, one month before the incident, Worker Anthony House was also hit by falling ice while on a construction tarp next to Theriault.

A worker at Berai Brothers Construction, now known as the Berai Alliance, House had a red mark on his shoulder blade in the incident.

Malcolm McKay, director of immigration, training and skills development at the Department of Labor, also testified, telling jurors that that particular incident would not have prompted a high-level investigation by the department. In fact, the incident was so trivial in nature that Mike Law, the site supervisor at the time, was under no obligation to report it, CBC reported.