Scaffold didn’t meet standard VANCOUVER (CP) — engineering consultant said Monday that four workers fell 36 storeys Jan. 7 ata city construction site because a section of scaffolding did not meet accepted standards. Gerald Sayers, a struc- tural engineer with his own firm, told an inquest the design drawings supplied by the scaffold’s manufacturer, Anthes Equipment Ltd. of Toronto, did not show clearly how ta assemble the three- metre high structure used as aconcrete mould and known as a fiy form. However, Sayers also said the contractor, Dominion Construction Co. Ltd. of Vancouver, should have Fequested clarification. As it was, ‘The panel (fly form) did not meet the Tequirements of Canadian Standards Association," Sayers said. ‘In fact, it was greatly below that standard for overturning stability.” The carpenters were killed when the scaffolding toppled without warning at the downtown Bentall Four Project, taking them with it to the plaza below. Sayers said the Anthes fly form, as assembled by Dominion, would have been able to support 273 kilograms on its outside end without overturning. Earlier evidence indicated the four carpenters and their tools weighed 360 kilograms. Dominion Construction officials have testified they believed a buttress shown in the engineering drawings needed to be in place only when concrete was actually being poured into the fly form. An Anthes’ engineer in- sisted in his testimony that the drawings were meant to show that the buttress was needed as soon as the seaffold was put in place at each storey of construction. “| would look for some form of step-by-step in- structions,”’ Sayers said Monday, ''so it could be clearly seen when that member was to be placed in position. In my opinion, the drawings don't meet the standards — they are not detailed enough,” Under cross-examination by a lawyer for Anthes, Sayers added that Dominion Construction officials “should have gone back to the designer to clear it up.” The buttress was not in place when Gunther Couvreux, 41, Brian John Stevenson, 21, ¥rjo Milrunen, 47, and Donald Wayne Davis, 34, all of the Vancouver area, fell to their deaths. The inquest continues. ‘Quake - shakes ‘Frisco SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A moderate earthquake estimated at 4.1 on the Richter scale toppled bottles from shelves, caused a minor rockslide and jolted people awake throughout the San Francisco Bay area early today. There were no immediate reports of injuries or serious damage. ‘The quake hit at 2:45 a.m. PST (5:45 a.m. EST) and was centred in the Fremont area south of Oakland and was followed by a 2.7-rated aftershock at 2:57 a.m., said Robert Uhrhammer, research seismologist at the University of. California seismology laboratory in Berkeley. The main quake was felt along at least 160 kilometres of the California coast from Monterey to Marin County, said the state Office of Emergenty Services. “It just knocked a fot of wine bottles off, soda pop, medicine, books, coffee pots,”” said Larry Foster. Page 4, The Herald, Tuesday, March 3, 1981 MONTREAL (CP) — Seven women who were refused work at Canadian National Railways’ maintenance shops in 1978 have been awarded back pay and offered jobs in skilled trades as a result of a landmark decision reached by the Canadian Human Rights Commission last ' Summer. The women have been reimbursed a total of $71,000 in lost wages and six of them have started jobs as apprentice ma- .chinists and electricians -as a result of an agreement reached last month with the railway. The agreement was unveiled by the women ata Quebec Federation of Labor news confer- = ence Monday. The railway agreed to negotiate with the women last September. after the rights commis- sion found it guilty of Under the agreement, . the railway establishes - an affirmative action Program which will allow women applicants - toenter apprenticeships — in’ maledominated trades without fulfilling the company’s ‘traditional requirements. ; Female applicants will be required only to pass company aptitude WOMEN GET BACK PA Y AND SKILLED JOBS tests and a medical ex- aminalion and will not have to have trade " school diplomas, said the women's spokesman, Margaret Manwaring. Manwaring, who has chosen to become an apprentice electrician, said the local women "5 organization which supported their appeals, Action- ‘Travail des Femmes, is negotiating with the railway ta have more than 60 women hired for its Montreal shops. 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