Greg Carr
2008-02-08 10:17:38 UTC
13-year-old crushed to death by stack of drywall
By Jack Keating
The Province
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
A Surrey construction site was closed yesterday as WorkSafeBC
investigated the death of a 13-year-old boy crushed to death by 820
kilograms of drywall.
The boy had joined his father, who was doing some caulking work for an
insulation company, at the four-story condo complex in the 15300-block
101st Avenue about 5:20 p.m. Sunday.
"The father was doing some work on the first level of the four-storey
building and he had told his son just to hang around," said Donna
Freeman of WorkSafeBC. "Not that much later, he did call out for his
son and didn't get a response."
The dad went searching for his son shortly before 7 p.m., only to find
him "on the fourth floor unconscious and trapped under the drywall,"
said Freeman.
"Drywall may be in piles [or] it may be in sheets leaning against the
wall. We believe in this case that the drywall was upright and leaning
against the wall. The approximate weight of the drywall was 1,800
pounds."
Surrey RCMP Cpl. Roger Morrow called it a "tragic accident."
"The son is kind of hanging out with his dad [at work] and when the
father calls out to his son and gets no response, he goes looking for
him and eventually tracks him down and finds him trapped under a
number of sheets of gyp rock."
The dad was a sub-contractor for Valley West Insulation. Onni Project
Management Services is developer and prime contractor.
"We want to pass on our sincerest condolences to the family of the
victim," said Chris Evans of Onni. "It's a real tragedy. Our thoughts
are with the family."
Police did not identify the boy, who is from Langley.
"Counsellors (There should only be one l in that word. Use a spell
checker MSM.) have been available at [the boy's] school," said Craig
Spence of the Langley School Board. "Steps have been taken to inform
students, particularly students who would have been in classes that he
would have been in."
***@png.canwest.com
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=6c64479f-9486-4a5f-b08a-7440581fa5ae&k=54116
Condolences of course to the grieving family. I have worked various
construction site sand some but not all have an orientation rule. You
are given a 15 minute or so safety course on site safety. It isn't
mentioned if this young lad was given one. It also isn't mentioned if
he was wearing any safety gear.
They have gotten bad press because some of their buildings have had
burst pipes and other problems and tenants have complained to their
MLA's. The one on 150th St was the scene of a gang rape six yrs ago
http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2001/01/08/bc_rape010108.html that was
never solved and has various tags on it and a stabbing took place
there 4 months ago but lately it looks better. Be nice if they fixed
the fence and got the swings workin' again.
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Tom Zytaruk, Surrey Now
Published: Thursday, November 22, 2007
The management of a Guildford apartment building is taking some heat
from tenants who say timely repairs aren't being done and security
deposits are being universally withheld.
Imperial Pines Estates, owned by members of the De Cotiis family and
managed by Vancouver-based Onni Property Management, is the subject of
complaints lodged by tenants as varied as lack of hydro, ant
infestation and rotten kitchen cupboards.
Surrey-Whalley NDP MLA Bruce Ralston met with some tenants and media
on Thursday morning to hear the tenants out. Ralston said his
constituency office has received a "series" of complaints from
tenants, adding that someone even posted his phone number on the front
door of the building.
Ralston said he's been told that tenants' security deposits -
typically half a month's rent - is being withheld as a matter of
policy, which he noted is "breaking the law."
"Clearly I think this landlord's made an economic decision not to
follow the law," he told reporters.
Most of the tenants interviewed are looking for somewhere else to
live. Tenant Jennifer Hutchison, who lives at the complex with her
children Dayton, 1, and Danae, 2, gave it "a one or two" out of 10.
"I moved here under the pretense that it was a good apartment, that
it'd have heat, that it'd have hot water - that it'd have all the
basic necessities that everybody lives with," she said.
But things aren't being fixed, she claimed, citing for example a
buzzer she said went unfixed for seven months.
Her main grievance with management, she said, is "probably the fact
that they don't ever bother to fix anything."
April Bradridge, 21, was renting a two-bedroom suite for $825 but has
given her notice and is moving out with her two kids, ages 2 and 5.
Bradridge says they've lived at times without heat or hot water. After
giving her notice, she said, she still hasn't received her security
deposit. Why, she doesn't know, as management has not yet inspected
her suite. She claimed her hydro has been shut off "a couple days
early" prior to moving out.
Bradridge told reporters she complained seven months ago about ants,
but still has them in her suite. "I woke up one time and there was
ants crawling on my arm," she said.
She added there are no fire extinguishers in the common halls:
"They're always getting stolen and they're never replaced."
Bobey Hodgins, a senior citizen, said she's been living at the complex
for two years and likes it there. There have been problems with the
heat, she noted, but they were fixed.
Pam Anderson pays $825 monthly for her two-bedroom suite. She told
reporters her kitchen cupboards were at one time rotten but have been
repaired. They took 10 minutes to repair them, she said, but three
months to get around to doing the job.
She's been without heat at times, she says. "It's just ice cold. We're
all bundled up."
As for security deposits, she said, "nobody's got their damage deposit
back."
Klara Huszti rents a one-bedroom suite for $618. Last June, she said,
she lost heating and hot water and contacted the landlord, but nothing
was done. She then wrote a letter to the residential tenancy office
asking them to come out and inspect the matter. "They didn't come
out," she said. Rather, she got a form letter from the office advising
her to ask the landlord to initiate repairs. She got a rent increase
in August.
Ralston says the provincial Liberal government hasn't helped renters
by closing residential tenancy offices in Surrey and Vancouver,
leaving only Burnaby open. Today, tenants forced to navigate their way
through a voicemail maze are finding it "very difficult" to get their
grievances addressed as all problems are being forced through a very
narrow bottleneck.
According to Martha Lewis, the executive director of TRAC Tenant
Resource & Advisory Centre, it's getting increasingly difficult for
renters.
"Increasingly, renters who need to move because of affordability
issues, or because they can't get their landlords to do repairs, or
renters who are forced to move because of an eviction are telling us
they have nowhere to go," she said.
During Thursday's "tour," building manager Al Dean told reporters to
stop filming and leave the premises. Asked if he's heard complaints
from tenants, he said "No comment."
On the question of security deposits not being returned, he told the
Now, "That I have no knowledge of."
We are awaiting the return of our JHVH in the flesh or his Son. His Son Yu'shua died on the cross for our sins, was resurrected and walked the earth for awhile then ascended unto Heaven. We await the Third Coming not the Second.
Scottish Quaker Robert Barclay-"The weighty Truths of God were neglected, and, as it were, went into Desuetude. ...
Who will be the last Coalition soldier to be maimed in Iraq?
Canadian troops out of Afghanistan and into Darfur.http://www.amnesty.ca/instantkarma/petition.php
I Like Big Bibles
Good luck to anyone trying to learn Hebrew. I am looking for a Hebrew-Gregorian calendar in both Hebrew and English lettering.
I am looking for my missing automobile. Left in the care of Low's Tire (Firestone) on King George Hwy which has since gone out of business. A man who claimed to be a tow truck driver named Jerry (sounded Black) called me and said he had it
but when I called him back he denied it. JVD-968 "89 Plymouth Reliant white with red interior. Contact me by email or the GRC if you are one of those ppl.
By Jack Keating
The Province
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
A Surrey construction site was closed yesterday as WorkSafeBC
investigated the death of a 13-year-old boy crushed to death by 820
kilograms of drywall.
The boy had joined his father, who was doing some caulking work for an
insulation company, at the four-story condo complex in the 15300-block
101st Avenue about 5:20 p.m. Sunday.
"The father was doing some work on the first level of the four-storey
building and he had told his son just to hang around," said Donna
Freeman of WorkSafeBC. "Not that much later, he did call out for his
son and didn't get a response."
The dad went searching for his son shortly before 7 p.m., only to find
him "on the fourth floor unconscious and trapped under the drywall,"
said Freeman.
"Drywall may be in piles [or] it may be in sheets leaning against the
wall. We believe in this case that the drywall was upright and leaning
against the wall. The approximate weight of the drywall was 1,800
pounds."
Surrey RCMP Cpl. Roger Morrow called it a "tragic accident."
"The son is kind of hanging out with his dad [at work] and when the
father calls out to his son and gets no response, he goes looking for
him and eventually tracks him down and finds him trapped under a
number of sheets of gyp rock."
The dad was a sub-contractor for Valley West Insulation. Onni Project
Management Services is developer and prime contractor.
"We want to pass on our sincerest condolences to the family of the
victim," said Chris Evans of Onni. "It's a real tragedy. Our thoughts
are with the family."
Police did not identify the boy, who is from Langley.
"Counsellors (There should only be one l in that word. Use a spell
checker MSM.) have been available at [the boy's] school," said Craig
Spence of the Langley School Board. "Steps have been taken to inform
students, particularly students who would have been in classes that he
would have been in."
***@png.canwest.com
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=6c64479f-9486-4a5f-b08a-7440581fa5ae&k=54116
Condolences of course to the grieving family. I have worked various
construction site sand some but not all have an orientation rule. You
are given a 15 minute or so safety course on site safety. It isn't
mentioned if this young lad was given one. It also isn't mentioned if
he was wearing any safety gear.
They have gotten bad press because some of their buildings have had
burst pipes and other problems and tenants have complained to their
MLA's. The one on 150th St was the scene of a gang rape six yrs ago
http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2001/01/08/bc_rape010108.html that was
never solved and has various tags on it and a stabbing took place
there 4 months ago but lately it looks better. Be nice if they fixed
the fence and got the swings workin' again.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tom Zytaruk, Surrey Now
Published: Thursday, November 22, 2007
The management of a Guildford apartment building is taking some heat
from tenants who say timely repairs aren't being done and security
deposits are being universally withheld.
Imperial Pines Estates, owned by members of the De Cotiis family and
managed by Vancouver-based Onni Property Management, is the subject of
complaints lodged by tenants as varied as lack of hydro, ant
infestation and rotten kitchen cupboards.
Surrey-Whalley NDP MLA Bruce Ralston met with some tenants and media
on Thursday morning to hear the tenants out. Ralston said his
constituency office has received a "series" of complaints from
tenants, adding that someone even posted his phone number on the front
door of the building.
Ralston said he's been told that tenants' security deposits -
typically half a month's rent - is being withheld as a matter of
policy, which he noted is "breaking the law."
"Clearly I think this landlord's made an economic decision not to
follow the law," he told reporters.
Most of the tenants interviewed are looking for somewhere else to
live. Tenant Jennifer Hutchison, who lives at the complex with her
children Dayton, 1, and Danae, 2, gave it "a one or two" out of 10.
"I moved here under the pretense that it was a good apartment, that
it'd have heat, that it'd have hot water - that it'd have all the
basic necessities that everybody lives with," she said.
But things aren't being fixed, she claimed, citing for example a
buzzer she said went unfixed for seven months.
Her main grievance with management, she said, is "probably the fact
that they don't ever bother to fix anything."
April Bradridge, 21, was renting a two-bedroom suite for $825 but has
given her notice and is moving out with her two kids, ages 2 and 5.
Bradridge says they've lived at times without heat or hot water. After
giving her notice, she said, she still hasn't received her security
deposit. Why, she doesn't know, as management has not yet inspected
her suite. She claimed her hydro has been shut off "a couple days
early" prior to moving out.
Bradridge told reporters she complained seven months ago about ants,
but still has them in her suite. "I woke up one time and there was
ants crawling on my arm," she said.
She added there are no fire extinguishers in the common halls:
"They're always getting stolen and they're never replaced."
Bobey Hodgins, a senior citizen, said she's been living at the complex
for two years and likes it there. There have been problems with the
heat, she noted, but they were fixed.
Pam Anderson pays $825 monthly for her two-bedroom suite. She told
reporters her kitchen cupboards were at one time rotten but have been
repaired. They took 10 minutes to repair them, she said, but three
months to get around to doing the job.
She's been without heat at times, she says. "It's just ice cold. We're
all bundled up."
As for security deposits, she said, "nobody's got their damage deposit
back."
Klara Huszti rents a one-bedroom suite for $618. Last June, she said,
she lost heating and hot water and contacted the landlord, but nothing
was done. She then wrote a letter to the residential tenancy office
asking them to come out and inspect the matter. "They didn't come
out," she said. Rather, she got a form letter from the office advising
her to ask the landlord to initiate repairs. She got a rent increase
in August.
Ralston says the provincial Liberal government hasn't helped renters
by closing residential tenancy offices in Surrey and Vancouver,
leaving only Burnaby open. Today, tenants forced to navigate their way
through a voicemail maze are finding it "very difficult" to get their
grievances addressed as all problems are being forced through a very
narrow bottleneck.
According to Martha Lewis, the executive director of TRAC Tenant
Resource & Advisory Centre, it's getting increasingly difficult for
renters.
"Increasingly, renters who need to move because of affordability
issues, or because they can't get their landlords to do repairs, or
renters who are forced to move because of an eviction are telling us
they have nowhere to go," she said.
During Thursday's "tour," building manager Al Dean told reporters to
stop filming and leave the premises. Asked if he's heard complaints
from tenants, he said "No comment."
On the question of security deposits not being returned, he told the
Now, "That I have no knowledge of."
We are awaiting the return of our JHVH in the flesh or his Son. His Son Yu'shua died on the cross for our sins, was resurrected and walked the earth for awhile then ascended unto Heaven. We await the Third Coming not the Second.
Scottish Quaker Robert Barclay-"The weighty Truths of God were neglected, and, as it were, went into Desuetude. ...
Who will be the last Coalition soldier to be maimed in Iraq?
Canadian troops out of Afghanistan and into Darfur.http://www.amnesty.ca/instantkarma/petition.php
I Like Big Bibles
Good luck to anyone trying to learn Hebrew. I am looking for a Hebrew-Gregorian calendar in both Hebrew and English lettering.
I am looking for my missing automobile. Left in the care of Low's Tire (Firestone) on King George Hwy which has since gone out of business. A man who claimed to be a tow truck driver named Jerry (sounded Black) called me and said he had it
but when I called him back he denied it. JVD-968 "89 Plymouth Reliant white with red interior. Contact me by email or the GRC if you are one of those ppl.