Windy Weather May Have Led To Worker Being Crushed To Death
Posted January 9, 2007 12:00 pm.
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Did Toronto’s windy weather lead to the death of a man at a construction site on Tuesday afternoon?
That’s just one of the causes investigators will be checking out, after a worker was crushed around 4:30pm at a site near Viking Road in the Kipling and Dundas area.
Paramedics worked feverishly to try to save the victim, who was working to help build a condo complex.
Police believe a section of scaffolding was blown off the top of the 28-storey structure by the high winds that have been swirling through the G.T.A. for the past day, landing directly on top of the employee, who only moments earlier lost his hard hat to the winds.
“A gust of wind, as far as we’ve been told, blew his hard hat off,” explained Det. Constable Jeff Beaver.
“Ultimately, he was struck by the scaffolding and was pronounced (dead) at the scene.”
“Nobody else was injured. There were some witnesses at the scene and we have spoken to them, but luckily nobody else was injured in the incident.”
Police aren’t releasing the victim’s name or age until they can notify his family.
It’s the second terrible incident on the job in the last 24 hours.
A 30-year-old man was killed late Monday when a big rig backing up at a Mississauga trucking company ran over the worker. In a terrible twist of fate, the person at the wheel was the victim’s own father.
The Ministry of Labour is investigating both tragedies.
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