International student's family sues Saskatoon company where he was killed at work

Hannah Spray · CBC News

· Posted: May 23, 2025 2:28 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

Family members of an planetary pupil who was killed astatine his occupation are suing the institution wherever helium worked.

Alfred Okyere died successful infirmary connected Jan. 20 aft helium was stabbed 17 times astatine DSI Underground Canada, a mining proviso institution successful Saskatoon's northbound end.

The 23-year-old had lone been moving astatine the institution for 5 days — a part-time occupation helium had started to assistance wage for his studies astatine the University of Saskatchewan. He moved to Canada from Ghana successful September 2024.

A co-worker, 53-year-old Troy Leclair, is charged with first-degree execution successful Okyere's death.

In a connection of assertion filed astatine Saskatoon Court of King's Bench earlier this month, Okyere's household alleges DSI Underground, which is owned by Sandvik Canada, was negligent by not providing a "safe and unafraid enactment environment."

The suit claims the institution knew, oregon should person known, that Leclair "was violent, prone to violence, hot-headed, impulsive, oregon suffered from a intelligence upset oregon information that contributed to, exacerbated, oregon caused convulsive and impulsive behaviour."

Allegations successful the connection of assertion person not been proven successful court. CBC contacted DSI Underground for remark but did not person a reply.

The plaintiffs listed successful the suit see Okyere's sister, who lives successful Saskatoon, his parents, who unrecorded successful Ghana, and his 2 young sons, who besides unrecorded successful Ghana.

The claim, made nether The Fatal Accidents Act, seeks an unspecified magnitude of damages, citing the "severe affectional trauma and intelligence distress" that Okyere's decease caused his family.