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None of the ironworkers who posed in photos last week from the top of the Stantec Tower were disciplined following an investigation, a union official said Thursday.

“The guys were all tied off … There really was no unsafe activity going on. That’s the normal process for putting steel up,” said Keith Stevenson, business manager for Ironworkers Local 720.

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“My understanding is the owner (One Properties) has taken this and they want a positive spin for it. I don’t think there will be any negative repercussions.”

About a dozen of the local’s 2,200 members installed trusses and put in bolts near the top of Edmonton’s 66-storey Stantec Tower, which will be Canada’s highest office building west of Toronto when it’s completed by the end of the year.

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The skilled tradespeople were captured standing on girders in a series of heart-stopping photos posted on Facebook by the Building Trades of Alberta.