B.C. forestry company to suspend operations for one day after workplace death
PORT MCNEILL, B.C. — A man is dead following what a forestry company is calling a “tragic accident” at one of its operations on northern Vancouver Island.
TimberWest Forest Corp. spokeswoman Monica Bailey said an equipment operator was killed Friday afternoon at the company’s Bonanza Lake site near Port McNeill.
Bailey would not provide the cause of death, saying only the man was moving his equipment at the time.
“Forest communities tend to be very small and people who work in forestry tend to know one another quite well,” she said.