安大略省工程公司发生的沟通故障导致缺陷，该检查未能在购物中心屋顶倒塌之前检测到弱点。

The engineer who wrote a report based on a visual inspection, stating that the mall roof was sound in May only weeks before the roof slab collapsed last June 23, killing two women inside, also had a suspended license at the time of the inspection, according to testimony June 6 and 7 at the commission of inquiry conducted by the Ontario government in Elliot Lake.

He was the president of the engineering firm, but he had recently lost his license. And he was unaware that his own firm had had inspected problems with leaks at the same structure years earlier.

该公司的另一位工程师签署了报告。在报告中签署的检查工程师和审查工程师都不知道购物中心的长期水入侵问题，或者他们自己的公司在2005年写了一份报告，涵盖了泄漏的屋顶问题。

证词提供了有关导致悲剧的事件的最详细信息。目击者还提供了30人工程公司M.R. Wright＆Associates，Inc。，Sault St. Marie及其前首席所有者兼总裁Robert Wood的情况。

During his testimony,伍德说，他为那些丧生的人以及对家人所做的一切感到抱歉。他指出，他的生活也受到影响，并且由于悲剧而退休。

伍德曾经是著名的结构设计师，失去了执照。他亲自对艾略特湖（Elliot Lake）进行了艾尔戈中心购物中心（Algo Center Mall）的检查 - 这项工作也可能是由年轻的，经验丰富的工程毕业生完成的。

据M.R. Wright的前工程经理兼公司少数派合作伙伴Gregory Saunders称，伍德在职业生涯的整个职业生涯中一直在工程学工作了38年，并在他的职业生涯中设计了许多建筑结构。桑德斯（Saunders）已在伍德（Wood）的购物中心屋顶上签署了视觉检查报告。屋顶还用作停车甲板。

The mall’s steel structure had had rusting, too, but no one had considered it significant at the time or was alarmed by what appeared to be surface rust only.

安大略省劳工部于4月22日宣布，已指控罗伯特·伍德违反了该省的工人安全法。他面临罚款和监禁。

委员会的调查是一个异常彻底的过程，自3月以来，该过程大约有60天的诉讼程序。But the two most culpaple parties in the tragedy had not yet testified until June 6 and 7.

Saunders' testimony portrayed Wood as a once-prominent building structural designer nearing the end of his active career but still the majority owner of the firm (the company has since been sold).

In the recent past, Wood had designed a small bridge that failed to meet code and had had his license suspended for the oversight. After arguing initially that the bridge didn’t need to meet code because it was on private land, Wood eventually agreed to the suspension and decided not to take required exams to regain his license, according to Saunders' testimony.

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Some of the testimony made it seem as if Wood had compromised with the mall’s owner, Robert Nazarian, who needed the inspection for new mortgage financing for the mall.

应纳粹的要求，伍德从“泄漏收集系统”的报告中删除了一张照片，这是一系列的防水布从屋顶甲板中跑去的水，进入购物中心的Zellers商店。他还取下了生锈的梁的照片，并通过删除“正在进行的”一词来改变“持续泄漏”一词。

在调查委员会首席律师布鲁斯·卡尔·哈里斯（Bruce Carr-Harris）的询问下，伍德承认，他没有像他在埃利奥特湖购物中心（Elliot Lake Mall）遇到的那样在购物中心处理腐蚀的经验。

他以前的腐蚀经历是在工业环境中。因为他没想到会在购物中心的钢结构上看到腐蚀，所以他并没有努力寻找它。

“显然，我正在寻找我被告知那里泄漏的区域。但这并不是我期望在很长一段时间内一直在进行的事情。”

从2005年开始，伍德公司对购物中心进行了一些模具研究，并指出当时生锈的钢结构。但是，当伍兹于去年5月检查该物业时，没有对该报告进行审查。