The widows of two men who were killed at a work site on Gabriola Island, B.C., have filed lawsuits against several construction companies, claiming the boom of a concrete pump-truck underwent shoddy repairs before it snapped and fell on the men last year.
Huguette Grenier-Doré and Margaret “Margy” Gilmour lost their husbands, Marc Doré and Chris Straw, in the collapse last March.
In their lawsuits filed this week, the widows claim the concrete truck’s boom broke near the point where it had been damaged and repaired months earlier.
“The turning column snapped from its base at or near the site of the weld repair, causing the entire boom to
