Our Investigation Experience

Our investigators conduct both fatal and serious workplace accidents investigations throughout Canada and the USA and are prepared to assist you regardless of the time or accident location. We can be on your site within 12 to 24 hours regardless of location, and will remain in ongoing telephone contact prior to arrival in order to provide direction to those at the accident site.

Our lead investigator Jeff Short has a wealth of investigation experience gained from over thirty years of combined police and health and safety investigation duties. Contact us for no obligation telephone advice (24/7) 1 (780) 432 4262.

Accident Investigation Solutions was founded in 1998 to provide investigation expertise to employers in fatal workplace accident situations, however, we find employers calling upon us to investigate a variety of workplace incidents. Can we be of service to you? Consider the following examples of where our services were utilized.

Fatal Workplace Accidents:

• Mechanic fatally injured while servicing forklift.
• Workplace homicide on behalf of a government agency.
• Fatal electrocution of an apprentice power utility lineman.
• Fatal fall of a journeyman scaffolder.
• Death of a laborer during pipe laying project.
• Death of a landscaper crushed by maintenance equipment.
• Tire service person killed by exploding heavy haul tire.
• Fatal electrocution of a power utility lineman.
• Death of two ironworkers in the collapse of a high steel project.
• Death of a supervisor during a tree felling operation.
• Fatal fall of an insulator during a plant shutdown.
• Fatal crushing injury of a worker in a pipe plant.
• Single vehicle rollover fatality on logging road.

  (In the above examples, we typically work with a firm’s legal counsel in order to maintain client/solicitor privilege over our reports. This is done as there is always the possibility that charges may be laid under a jurisdictions Occupational Health & Safety Acts or Code.)

Serious “Near Miss” Accidents:

• Worker struck while loading sulphur into rail car.
• Refinery explosion and fire injuring four workers.
• Vacuum truck operator overcome by hydrogen sulfide.
• Workers overcome by hydrogen sulfide during rescue attempt.
• Failure of ironworker’s fall arrest equipment during a fall.
• Near fatal electrocution of a drilling rig worker.
• Collision of a runaway rail locomotive in a manufacturing plant.
• Drilling rig collapse on behalf of both the manufacturer and the purchaser.
• Explosion and fire during oil well servicing.
• High-pressure natural gas compressor failure.
• Surveyor seriously injured while quading.
• Non-fatal single vehicle rollover of a service truck.
• Near fatal crush injury in a steel plant when a worker was drawn into a press.

  (The above incidents are examples of situations in which management realizes they have experienced a high potential near miss situation and external expertise may be of benefit in resolving the issue. Often, it’s a unionized workplace and both parties have agreed to an external resource for a variety of reasons. Again, the possibility of charges under OHS Codes exists.)

Other:

• Allegation of race discrimination in work assignment.
• Evaluation as to the increased potential of injury to workers resulting from a government agency downsizing from full size to mid size half ton trucks.
• Allegation of sexual harassment reported to have taken place during a health and safety audit.
• Allegation of bid rigging on an oilfield services project in violation of the USA Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
• A review and investigation of a complaint of a noxious gas release at an oilfield site on behalf of a company as their previous investigation as well as a government one had not resolved the issue.