DerelictTexture
Senior Member
- Joined
- Jul 2, 2012
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- Vancouver BC
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- Trying tto figure out what to do when I grow up
Brian Fitzpatrick is a friend mine. He posts in the HEF under "fitzpatrick"...usually in the forestry section.
His son was killed at the Kiewit Toba/Montrose project in 2009.
Controversy swirled around the circumstances of the incident. Less than 24hrs before, a rock fall caused by an excavator working above other workers, caused 65,000 dollars in damage and no injuries. The job was shut down and procedures reviewed. A ban on machines working above other workers was put in place.
The very next day, there were two...not one, but two excavators working above the area where Sam Fitzpatrick was hand drilling a boulder. A large multi thousand pound rock came down from an as yet unspecified area and made a direct hit on Sam, killing him instantly. The incident occurred right in front of his brother Arlen, and several others that were all good friends.
Kiewit was fined 250,000 dollars in 2011 for Sam's death at Toba. Kiewit appealed the fine, and Brian went to work with his own counter-appeal. Kiewit lost the first appeal and has made a second and last appeal which is being reviewed right now.
In the link below is an update ( Dec30/2012 ) in the Province newspaper on Brian Fitzpatricks battle for justice in his son's death
http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/12/dec30-update-on-brian-fitzpatricks.html
His son was killed at the Kiewit Toba/Montrose project in 2009.
Controversy swirled around the circumstances of the incident. Less than 24hrs before, a rock fall caused by an excavator working above other workers, caused 65,000 dollars in damage and no injuries. The job was shut down and procedures reviewed. A ban on machines working above other workers was put in place.
The very next day, there were two...not one, but two excavators working above the area where Sam Fitzpatrick was hand drilling a boulder. A large multi thousand pound rock came down from an as yet unspecified area and made a direct hit on Sam, killing him instantly. The incident occurred right in front of his brother Arlen, and several others that were all good friends.
Kiewit was fined 250,000 dollars in 2011 for Sam's death at Toba. Kiewit appealed the fine, and Brian went to work with his own counter-appeal. Kiewit lost the first appeal and has made a second and last appeal which is being reviewed right now.
In the link below is an update ( Dec30/2012 ) in the Province newspaper on Brian Fitzpatricks battle for justice in his son's death
http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/12/dec30-update-on-brian-fitzpatricks.html