Sam Fitzpatrick, Death on a Kiewit Project / Media Collections

By Mike Pearson

  A Collection of News Articles About Sam Fitzpatrick's 2009 Death on a Kiewit Project


Squamish Chief Newspaper

https://www.squamishchief.com/local-news/squamish-man-dies-at-toba-inlet-3338076


The WorkSafeBC report on the Sam Fitzpatrick workplace death on Kiewit project

http://thetyee.ca/Documents/2013/04/07/Toba Inlet Worksafe Report.pdf


Sam Cooper/ The Province Newspaper

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-province/20120513/281655367103737?srsltid=AfmBOoqo12MWnxyhX_L0rJuuBG2Sj0Bf1uA9_hpqJ3GAayAoEeIpXs1e


Construct Connect

https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/others/2009/03/kiewit-rock-scaler-dies-at-toba-inlet-project-dcn032848w

The Tyee

https://thetyee.ca.nmsrv.com/Analysis/2019/09/02/Death-On-Job-Criminal-Trial-Contractor/


CBC Bethany Lindsay

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-sam-fitzpatrick-death-kiewit-eleventh-anniversary-1.5469468


Construct Connect

https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/ohs/2021/09/timeline-the-case-of-kiewit-and-sam-fitzpatrick


Heavy Equipment Forum

https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/threads/june-2014-update-on-brian-fitzpatrickss-battle-against-kiewit.44262/


Vancouver Sun Bethany Lindsay

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/a-fathers-grief-turns-to-anger-and-then-action


United Steel Workers Union  Steve Hunt

https://usw.ca/united-steelworkers-welcomes-criminal-charges-against-kiewit-construction-in-death-of-sam-fitzpatrick/


Global News

https://globalnews.ca/news/558511/powell-river-father-takes-on-kiewit-following-death-of-his-son/


BC Building Trades

https://bcbuildingtrades.org/fight-for-justice-continues-in-rock-scalers-death/


United Steel Workers Union

https://usw.ca/fighter-for-corporate-criminal-accountability-will-be-missed-say-steelworkers/


CBC

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.5028658


CBC Radio Canada

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1772623/accident-travail-rocher-sam-fitzpatrick-kiewit-worksafebc


BC Federation of Labour

https://bcfed.ca/news/releases/urgent-action-needed-hold-negligent-employers-account-crown-stays-proceedings-against


Squamish Chief Newspaper

https://www.squamishchief.com/local-news/man-arrested-in-death-of-squamish-worker-faces-extradition-3351857


Business Wire

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210902005715/fr/


Vancouver is Awesome

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/bc-news/criminal-negligence-charge-stayed-in-2009-worker-death-at-toba-inlet-project-in-bc-4270585


Coast Reporter

https://www.coastreporter.net/local-news/still-fighting-for-sam-4827220



The Tyee Tom Sandborn

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2016/12/01/Enforce-Westray-Act/


Council of Construction Associations

https://cocabc.ca/unprecedented-criminal-charges-laid-in-b-c-workers-death/


Construct Connect

https://canada.constructconnect.com/joc/news/labour/2020/10/letter-to-the-editor-what-union-would-seek-to-help-a-corporation-make-a-workers-death-more-economical


Youtube Interview. Brian Fitzpatrick with David Berner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L1OPJXyUrQ


Laila Yuile

https://lailayuile.com/2019/05/31/breaking-peter-kiewit-and-sons-ulc-two-former-managers-charged-with-criminal-negligence-in-the-death-of-sam-fitzpatrick/


The British Columbia Review

https://thebcreview.ca/2018/09/19/97-getting-away-with-murder/


BC Building Trades

https://bcbuildingtrades.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BC-Building-Trades_Tradetalk_Spring-2021_WEB_Final.pdf


Engineering News Record

https://www.enr.com/articles/50114-kiewit-two-ex-managers-canada-fatality-criminal-trial-set-for-sept-2021


CTV News

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/criminal-negligence-charges-stayed-in-case-where-young-man-was-killed-by-boulder-at-worksite-1.5568839


Global News

https://globalnews.ca/news/8158371/bc-toba-inlet-sam-fitzpatrick-death-charges-stayed/


United Steel Workers Union

https://usw.ca/wlb-cases-stayed/


Construct Connect

https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/government/2021/09/industry-reacts-to-kiewit-fitzpatrick-decision-there-is-no-justice-here


Yahoo News

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/friends-family-still-wait-criminal-140000580.html


Mining.Com

https://www.mining.com/criminal-negligence-charges-laid-peter-kiewit-sons-worksite-death/


BC Federation of Labour

https://bcfed.ca/news/releases/criminal-charges-against-kiewit-construction-precedent-setting


One of my favourites, US based Fasken Law office

https://www.fasken.com/en/solution/clientwork/2019/06/prosecution-for-criminal-negligence-causing-death-arising-from-a-workplace-fatality


Construct Connect....travelling to Victoria with USW Steve Hunt and Journalist/ Activist Tom Sanborn [ and me....Mike Pearson] to ask AG David Eby to step in a re-start the criminal case. Which of course, he did not do.

https://canada.constructconnect.com/joc/news/ohs/2021/11/fitzpatrick-advocates-take-case-to-top-b-c-government-ministers












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