Families remember the tragedy at Bentall Four Tower
Posted January 7, 2016 2:48 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Thirty five years after four construction workers fell to their death at the Bentall IV tower in Vancouver, and today families of the victims are still fighting for better safety conditions on worksites.
Every year this day is hard to handle for Mike Davis, whose father Donald died in that accident.
“As far as feelings go obviously losing my dad when I was 13 was a massive impact. I still miss him, every time I speak at these things, I always get choked up. I carry it with me my whole life,” says Davis as he tears up.
Tom Sigurdson with BC Building Trades says more needs to be done.
“In the last year that was reported, that was 2014, there were 44 construction deaths,” explains Sigurdson. “It’s actually an increase of about 40 per cent, now many of those are due to exposures and it was a tough year in the construction industry.”
On January 7, 1981, Gunther Couvreux, Brian Stevenson, Donald Davis, and Yriko Mitrunen fell when the fly-form they’d been working on collapsed, tumbling 36 floors to the street below.
