Tour bus company charged with health and safety violations in fatal Jasper icefields rollover
The corporate working a tour bus that crashed within the Columbia Icefield in Jasper Nationwide Park in 2020 has been charged beneath Alberta’s Occupational Well being and Security Act.
Brewsters Inc. is charged with eight counts beneath the act, together with failing to regulate hazards and failing to make sure gear was in protected working situation.
The fees, introduced Friday afternoon by Alberta Occupational Well being and Security, embody failing to make sure staff and passengers had been protected on the automobile and within the neighborhood of the worksite.
Three individuals had been killed and 14 others had life-threatening accidents after a glacier sightseeing automobile rolled off a highway on the Columbia Icefield, about 100 kilometres southeast of Jasper, Alta., on July 18, 2020.
The all-terrain Ice Explorer, carrying 27 individuals, rolled about 50 metres down a moraine embankment earlier than coming to relaxation on its roof.
A complete of 24 individuals had been injured.
The buses frequently take vacationers up a tough, rocky highway onto the Athabasca Glacier in Jasper Nationwide Park.
Crown prosecutors proceed to evaluation an RCMP investigation into the crash to find out if felony expenses are warranted within the case.
What brought on the rollover of the big-wheeled, off-road vacationer bus to lose management stays beneath investigation.
The RCMP handed its report into the deadly rollover to the Alberta Crown prosecutor’s workplace final month. Prosecutors will decide if the proof warrants any felony expenses.
The RCMP report has not been launched publicly. It was initially promised final spring, then pushed to the autumn.
A minimum of two civil circumstances are looking for compensation for survivors and the households of the victims have been launched within the crash.
