No Public Inquiry Into Scaffolding Collapse: Labour Minister
Posted January 7, 2010 11:26 am.
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There will be no public inquiry into the scaffolding collapse that left four men dead, the Labour Minister announced on Thursday.
Peter Fonseca has ruled out the request by Ontario labour groups.
On Christmas Eve, 2009, a suspended platform broke at a Kipling Avenue apartment building. Five workers plunged 13 storeys to the ground below. Four of them died and the fifth is still in hospital.
Fonseca says there is already a police investigation, a Ministry of Labour investigation and a coroner’s inquest.
Stop-work orders had previously been issued at the site of a fatal scaffolding collapse. At least eight citations had been given to Metron Construction Inc., and two of them were stop-work orders.
With files from The Canadian Press
