Charges laid against engineer in deadly mall collapse
Posted April 22, 2013 9:20 pm.
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TORONTO (NEWS1130) – A professional engineer faces charges under health and safety laws in connection with last summer’s deadly mall collapse in a northern Ontario town, the province’s Ministry of Labour announced Monday.
The engineer is alleged to have endangered a worker by providing “negligent advice,” the ministry said.
The Ministry of Labour’s Tom Zach told The Canadian Press the accused is Robert Wood, an engineer found guilty of professional misconduct in 2010.
Wood and colleague Gregory Saunders of M.R. Wright and Associates based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., inspected the mall in Elliot Lake, Ont., as recently as April, 2012.
A month later — just one month before the collapse — they wrote to say the mall was structurally sound despite finding rust on beams.
Wood could not be immediately reached for comment late Monday.
