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B.C. court delivers a rare guilty verdict in a workplace fatality case

by Local Journalism Initiative December 15, 2025

written by Local Journalism Initiative December 15, 2025

By Isaac Phan Nay | The Tyee More than 13 years after pipe layer Jeff Caron was crushed to death while replacing a Burnaby storm sewer, a B.C. Supreme Court judge found his employer J. Cote & Son Excavating guilty of criminal negligence. Presiding justice Michael Brundrett said in...

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B.C. court delivers a rare guilty verdict in a workplace fatality case

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