OHS charges laid after worker seriously injured during Valley Line West LRT construction
Marigold Infrastructure Partners facing 14 counts under OHS Act, OHS Code
The company constructing Edmonton's Valley Line West LRT line is facing more than a dozen charges for violations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act and OHS Code, after a worker was seriously injured on the job in June 2023.
Marigold Infrastructure Partners is facing 14 counts related to a June 23, 2023, incident.
According to the charges, workers were completing temporary post-tensioning of a segment of the Valley Line West project. When one of the jacks pressured up, concrete crumbled and a tensioning bar and jack hit the worker, causing serious injury.
The charges include failure to ensure workers were adequately trained in all matters necessary to perform their work in a healthy and safe manner, failure to ensure the health and safety of a worker and failure to ensure a hazard assessment was repeated when a new work process was introduced.
Marigold Infrastructure Partners was selected to construct the Valley Line West LRT in 2020.
The 14-kilometre LRT extension from downtown to Lewis Farms is expected to be complete in 2028.
