WorkSafeBC is investigating the deaths of two people after being trapped under glass sheets in Richmond in mid-October.
Emergency personnel were called to the scene Oct. 12 around 9 a.m. in the 16000-block of River Road, close to No. 7 Road.
Richmond Fire-Rescue – who included the information in their monthly report to city council – arrived at the scene and determined the two workers had died. Soon thereafter, they were joined by paramedics who confirmed the deaths.
Richmond Fire-Rescue crew members helped remove the glass off the two bodies using airbags.
WorkSafeBC and the RCMP Special Crimes Unit also were on scene.
According to WorkSafeBC, the two people who died were employees, but they didn’t say who they were working for at the time of the incident.
WorkSafeBC said the primary purpose of their investigation is to determine the cause of the incident as well as any contributing factors, “so that similar incidents can be prevented from happening in the future.”
