The trial of a construction company and foreman charged in a Burnaby workplace death learned the history of a retaining wall that collapsed in 2012, killing one worker and injuring another. Longtime ...

A pipelayer who survived the collapse of a retaining wall on a Burnaby city sewer project, killing his co-worker, said “all hell broke loose” when the wall caved, sending him running for his life.

Three days later, he said his next door neighbour's retaining wall collapsed into the trench, killing one worker and injuring another. Thomas Whiffin, who has lived on Edinburgh Street since 1955, was ...