WorkSafeBC says an industrial camp operator wasn’t following provincial health orders in December 2021 when a worker was found dead from COVID-19 inside their room one morning.
The workers’ compensation board fined Alberta-based Horizon North Camps & Catering Partnership $206,346 last September, according to a public report released last week.
An incident investigation report shared with Black Press Media reveals the worker was living at the company’s Sanaata Lodge, located about 45 kilometres west of Dawson Creek, when he first reported feeling ill on Dec.