Manitoba demolition company ordered to halt all demolition work.
Avenue Construction, the demolition company connected to a July 13 asbestos scare has been ordered to halt all demolition work in the province until it can prove it has safe work procedures in place. The general stop work order issued to Avenue Construction by provincial investigators remained in effect as of July 19, says Jo-Anna Guerra, director of the Prevention Services and Partnerships Branch of Manitoba’s Workplace Safety and Health Division (WSHD) in Winnipeg.
That order and others followed the illegal demolition of the Transcona Meats building on Regent Avenue in Winnipeg’s east end, which was found to contain asbestos, Guerra reports. Avenue Construction began tearing down the one storey, nearly 2,000-square-foot building and attached shed at about 5 pm on July 13. It was demolished within roughly two hours, she adds.
Before noon on July 14, the WSHD received an anonymous tip concerning the “unsafe demolition of a building,” Guerra says. When investigators arrived at about 12:15 pm, they found that most of the debris had already been removed.
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