Sunrise Propane: Cutting Corners Kills

The brother of a man killed in the Sunrise Propane explosion calls a report from the Ontario Fire Marshal about the blast a “light from God.”

“From the start of things we already knew many of them were negligent,” Vikramjit Singh Saini said. “Now it is out front of everybody. Me and my father, my mother, everybody, we are all now looking for justice.”

Almost two years after the tragedy, the Office of the Fire Marshal has concluded the deadly blast was caused by an illegal tank-to-tank transfer and a gas hose leak. Sunrise employee Parminder Singh Saini, 25, was killed in the explosion, and veteran firefighter Bob Leek died of a heart attack while battling the resulting inferno.

Alfred Kwinter, who represents the Saini family, said the report “affirms everything we allege.”

A lawyer in the class-action suit against Sunrise agrees. “It confirms our claim that these people allowed a dangerous operation,” Harvin Pitch said. “The truck to truck transfer was outlawed by TSSA (Technical Standards and Safety Authority), and it went on notwithstanding.”

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