And many of those families say the grief continues when they realize the penalties employers face do not match the enormity of their loss. Over that same period, there were 30 convictions under the province's Occupational Health and Safety act for fatality-related incidents, according to Alberta Labour records. It is also the only province that doesn't allow for jail sentences under provincial occupational safety law. Occupational health and safety investigators comb through the construction site on April 28, 2015, where Fred Tomyn died in a trench collapse in Edmonton. But he says they have also in some ways exposed holes in provincial occupational health and safety regimes.

Source: CBC News November 30, 2017 09:56 UTC