Workers hired through temporary staffing agencies are less educated on workplace safety, more afraid to speak up
A labourer was digging a sewer line at a residential infill project in Edmonton in 2015 when a wall of the trench collapsed, burying him under more than one metre of clay and dirt. After many hours, firefighters found the worker’s body. He had been crushed to death. The 55-year-old had been hired through a temporary labour agency.