North Island Gazette – Port Hardy News

Inadequate safety training a factor in teen BMX star’s workplace death in 2019

Eighteen-year-old Aidan Webber died in a marine accident in 2019. He was a Canadian Junior BMX champion from Nanaimo. (Submitted)

Aidan Webber was crushed by a barge at a fish farm near Port Hardy

by Zoe Ducklow, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
updated 2h ago

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