Justin Muss was injured when he fired a bear-scaring device 170 km north of Fort St. John as a black bear approached him.
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has awarded a man $795,000 for damages after he was injured when using a bear-frightening device later found to be defective.
Muss saw a “good-sized” black bear around 50 feet away from him, the ruling said. He tried yelling and honking his truck’s horn to deter the bear but the bear continued to move closer. “As soon as the plaintiff released the trigger, he heard a really loud bang and felt pain in his right side,” the judge wrote. “He could not hear and everything looked blurry around him. He was confused and did not know what had happened.”
“His leg was not bleeding but he saw that the area around where the shrapnel entered his leg was burned and he could not feel anything there.”The judge said Muss has worked as a gas field operator since 2008, work involving being alone in remote locations and working in environments with loud machinery.The court heard he has received bear safety training through his job since 2008, including bear banger use training, implements he has used hundreds of times.
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