Coroner’s inquest begins in 2024 New Brunswick wind farm construction site death
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A coroner's inquest into the 2024 death of a Saskatchewan man who was working at a wind farm construction site in New Brunswick has begun.
A coroner’s inquest into the 2024 death of a Saskatchewan man who was working at a wind farm construction site in New Brunswick has begun.
Matthew Brawn was killed on July 18, 2024, after a workplace accident while erecting wind turbines in the Springdale area of Kings Rural District.
Regional coroner, Danny Mallet, and a jury heard Monday that the 46-year-old Regina man was a pilot truck driver for Richards Transport Ltd. and was unloading a wind turbine tower at the Neweg Energy Project.
According to WorkSafeNB, he was “run over by a Dolly Snappel trailer, a specialized heavy-duty transport trailer designed to move extremely large, heavy and irregularly shaped cargo.”
Woodturbine Construction Team Inc. pleaded guilty to a charge under the Occupational Health and Safety Act in January 2025 for failing to ensure that an industrial lift truck was not loaded beyond its capacity. The company was fined $25,000 plus a $5,000 victim surcharge.
The two-day coroner’s inquest is now examining how the accident happened and what safety measures were in place.
Five witnesses were questioned on the first day, including WorkSafeNB investigator Michael Cyr. He pointed to unsafe equipment use as the leading cause of Brawn’s death.
The inquest heard that the equipment used that day consisted of a truck, dolly, and a telehandler — a heavy-duty machine with a telescopic boom.
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