A welder who suffered carbon monoxide poisoning at Seaspan's Victoria shipyard continued to cut metal in a confined space on a ship for 40 minutes after a gas-monitor alarm started sounding, says a WorkSafeBC report. Seaspan has been fined just over $710,000 for "high-risk violations" in connection with the July 12, 2023, incident at the Admirals Road shipyard. The incident report said a ­gas-monitor alarm started sounding about two minutes after the worker started ­cutting metal inside the confined space, where he was doing arc ­gouging — a welding technique using a carbon electrode, power and compressed air to create intense heat to melt and cut metal. The report said the alarm should have led to an ­immediate evacuation, but the cutting of metal ­continued for 40 ­minutes before the worker finally emerged on his own. "There was no action taken to pull the worker out of the space where there was carbon ­monoxide buildup."