City of Cranbrook fined $175K for using potentially contaminated dirt during monster truck event

Courtney Dickson · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 07, 2025 3:24 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

The City of Cranbrook is facing a good of $175,783 aft an inspection recovered respective information issues astatine an indoor monster motortruck lawsuit successful February. 

WorkSafeBC, a provincial enactment that investigates workplaces for wellness and information practices, says that erstwhile it inspected the event, it recovered the ungraded utilized whitethorn person been contaminated by "hazardous substances." It alleges the ungraded was taken from a wastewater attraction works without being tested for contamination. 

The bureau besides says state detection monitors for c dioxide, c monoxide and nitrogen dioxide work supra the acceptable vulnerability limit. 

"The leader besides failed to behaviour a walkthrough survey to measure the imaginable for overexposure to hazardous substances, failed to measure the enactment country to find the imaginable for vulnerability to harmful levels of exhaust from mobile equipment, and failed to instrumentality an vulnerability power plan," the investigation says.

All violations noted by WorkSafeBC are classified arsenic precocious risk, the bureau says. 

In a connection issued connected July 5, the metropolis said it is appealing the fine. 

The metropolis said the ungraded utilized successful February was cleanable capable taken from a roadworthy operation task — not the wastewater attraction plant, arsenic stated by WorkSafeBC. 

"The City takes these allegations earnestly and volition enactment with WorkSafeBC to guarantee each events support nationalist and unit safety," the connection reads.