An empty company fridge sent the crew out for dinner, then everything went sideways
A worker beaten unconscious by a co-worker in a restaurant parking lot after hours has won workers' compensation, after a British Columbia tribunal tied the attack to a jobsite dispute the day before and found a lack of food at the company house was what sent the crew out to eat.
In a decision dated June 10, 2026, Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal Vice-Chair Kathleen Mell dismissed an employer's appeal and confirmed that the worker, a heavy equipment operator who had been on the job only days, was entitled to benefits for injuries he suffered when a co-worker assaulted him on March 9, 2024.
The worker had relocated from another province days earlier to take the operator role, and his offer of employment provided housing and food. The tribunal heard that on the night in question there was little usable food at the company house, so when a co-worker invited him to join the group for dinner, he went along.
Vice-Chair Mell rejected the employer's position that the house was adequately stocked, finding, "I do not accept that the evidence establishes that there was sufficient food in the house that night." Credit card records did not show a large grocery run around that weekend, and the crew had ordered in the night before.
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