A major Canadian union and safety expert are blasting a decision by British Columbia prosecutors to effectively drop a criminal negligence prosecution of U.S. construction giant Kiewit Corp. and two former construction managers, just as trial was set to start, in the death more than a decade ago of a 24-year-old company site employee.
The B.C. Prosecution Service has stayed proceedings in criminal negligence charges filed in 2019 in the death of Sam Fitzpatrick, a rock scaler killed by a falling boulder on a remote hydroelectric project in northern British Columbia.