The three migrant workers who survived a horrific crash in Hampstead, Ont., earlier this week will likely lose their workers' compensation benefits and be deported, a provincial victims’ group says.

The Industrial Accident Victims' Group of Ontario (IAVGO) commended the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) for covering costs for the families of the 10 workers who died on Monday, but said the board’s treatment of survivors is unfair.

“Migrant workers who get injured in the course of their employment are supposedly entitled to the same rights and benefits as their Ontario peers,” the group said in a statement.

“The truth on the ground is very different.”

Juan Ariza, 35, Javier Abelardo Alba-Medina, 38, and Edgar Sulla-Puma, 26, survived the crash that killed 10 of their fellow migrant workers when their van was broadsided by a truck. The truck driver also died.

Ariza is now in fair condition after first being listed as critical. Alba-Medina is also in fair condition. The family of Sulla-Puma, airlifted on Monday to Hamilton General Hospital in critical condition, doesn’t want further updates made public.

Relatives of one the victims said many of the 13 people in the van were related. La Republica, a newspaper in Peru, reported that seven of those killed were from one family and the others were fathers and sons.

All of the workers in the van — except one man originally from Nicaragua — were Peruvian, some arriving in Canada days before their deaths and some of whom had well-established lives here.

The driver, David Armando Hernandez Blancas, 45, was one of the workers killed in the crash and had been living in New Hamburg, not far from the crash site. He had an Ontario driver's licence, but not the type required to drive a van of that size, according to the Ontario Provincial Police.

The van could carry 15 people and Ontario law requires the driver of a vehicle that transports more than 11 passengers hold at least a class F licence, but Blancas had only a regular G licence, police said.

The WSIB is offering coverage for families of the victims, including the costs of repatriating their bodies to Peru and paying health-care expenses through Ontario's health insurance for the survivors.

IAVGO’s Jessica Ponting said that’s not enough.

"Canada and the agricultural industry are quick to dispose of migrant workers who get injured in the course of their employment,” she said.

“Workers are soon sent back to the ... south, and in our experience, are unable to find work with their injury and largely unable to pay for private medical care. It's an inhumane and unjust way for Canada to treat people who get injured putting food on our tables.”

With files from The Canadian Press