Our Investigation Experience

Our investigators conduct serious or fatal workplace accidents investigations throughout Canada and the USA and are prepared to assist you regardless of the time or accident location. Our lead investigator Jeff Short has a wealth of investigation experience gained from over thirty years of combined police and health and safety investigation duties. Contact us for no obligation telephone advice at any time 1 (780) 432 4262.

Accident Investigation Solutions was founded in 1998 for the purpose of providing investigation expertise to employers in fatal workplace accident situations, however, we find employers calling upon us to investigate a variety of workplace incidents. If you’re wondering if Accident Investigation Solutions may be of assistance in your situation, consider the following examples of where our services were utilized.

Fatal or Serious Accidents:

• Fatal electrocution of a power utility lineman.
• Death of two ironworkers in the collapse of a high steel project.
• Death of a supervisor during a tree felling operation.
• Fatal fall of an insulator during a plant shutdown.
• Fatal crushing injury of a worker in a pipe plant.
• Single vehicle rollover fatality where no police report was available and employer required prevention recommendations.

(Examples of situations in which we typically work with a firm’s legal counsel in order to maintain a client/solicitor privilege over our reports as there is a strong possibility that charges may be laid under an Occupational Health & Safety Act.)

Serious “Near Miss” Accidents:

• Near fatal electrocution of a drilling rig worker.
• Collision of a runaway rail locomotive in a manufacturing plant.
• Drilling rig collapse on behalf of both the manufacturer and the purchaser.
• Explosion and fire during oil well servicing.
• High pressure natural gas compressor failure.
• Surveyor seriously injured while quading.
• Non fatal single vehicle rollover of a service truck.
• Near fatal crush injury in a steel plant when a worker was drawn into a press.

(Examples of situations in which management realizes they’ve experienced a high potential near miss situation and external expertise may be of benefit. Often, it’s a unionized workplace and both parties have agreed to an external resource for a variety of reasons.)

Other:

• Evaluation as to the increased potential of injury to workers resulting from a government agency downsizing from full size to mid size half ton trucks.
• Allegation of sexual harassment reported to have taken place during a health and safety audit.
• Allegation of bid rigging on an oilfield services project in violation of the USA Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
• A review and investigation of a complaint of a noxious gas release at an oilfield site on behalf of a company as their previous investigation as well as a government one had not resolved the issue.