Young Worker Seriously Injured on Construction Site | WorkSafeBC
This short version of The Curtis Zanussi Story highlights the suddenness and severity of a workplace injury, and prompts youth to consider their rights to a safe workplace.
This emotional video focuses on 24-year-old Curtis Zanussi, who was seriously injured while working on a golf course construction site. It highlights the hazards young workers face in construction and emphasizes the employer's responsibilities for training and supervision.
In this video, Curtis shares how he nearly lost his life after a trench he was working in collapsed. WorkSafeBC occupational safety officers talk about the effects that injuries sustained on the job can have on other workers and the employer. This video also reminds us of the risks to young workers when they’re not made aware of the hazards and risks on the jobsite.
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feel you pain mate when you get damaged on a Construction site it change your life, I know I got damaged by a hole site fence it damage my life I stay at home mum know and the missus works for the family my back damaged for life was 22 year ago I was 22 years old then, so hang in there mate you family there for you. and you got to got home some don't make it home. rip to the ones that never got home.
THIS is why we use trench boxes kids.
this EXACT thing happened to me. I was just out of high school got a job with a barn building company, boss was a hardass which was to be expected. We had to dig a trench with for a drainage pipe to go from the barns troughs to the big outside tank. I was in the hole with a laser level stick to make sure we were running at a continuous slope. roughly 18-20 feet down, maybe 5 or 6 feet wide. All of a sudden the guy clipped the side with the bucket. i ran and all that earth for 15 feet filled in.
God bless
stay strong brother. aaaa aaaa aaaaaaaaa aa.
rip bruv
This accident- and Several others in the Comments- I'm sure has had a Very Detrimental Affect on Every Injured Worker. So- I'm wondering how things have panned out in regards to the WCB System that is supposed to help you guys?
so basicly the trench fell so how is that the workplaces fault? that be like sayin if an avalanche happens its the ski resorts fault? i mean yeh thats a pretty scary accident but i dunno if i would say this one was the workplaces fault and it wasnt his either its just the wall on the trench was unstable and collapsed
@UserName-us1nm
5 жыл бұрын
We can fault resorts for avalanches when negligence is at play. Simple as that, there are ways to reduce or mitigate the risks, to workers, and to skiers.
@ravenmoonspicer4781
Жыл бұрын
You are supposed to build the trench and ensure that it is reinforced. So yes, that is the employer's fault. A ski resort is to check to ensure that there is no risk of avalanches. If there is, explosives are used to force avalanches when there is danger. Yes, the ski resort would be liable. I live in the mountains. Avalanches occur when people get helicoptered to ski sites that are NOT part of a resort, or skiers will go to closed-off areas that are clearly marked as dangerous due to avalanche risk and do it anyway. However, due to signs which are clearly indicated, the resort is not liable.