One person is dead and two others are injured following the collapse of a structure on a construction site on Tuesday.
Authorities say the site is located in Blainville, Que. — a suburb of Montreal located on the city’s North Shore.
Local police say the underground walls of a commercial building under construction collapsed at around 11 a.m.
One worker was found dead on site under the rubble, another was taken to hospital with a leg injury and the third person was treated on site.
Police did not release any information about the victim.
Another person was also trapped in the mobile construction office that fell into the hole that had been excavated, but they were rescued and treated for shock.
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Photos from the site showed the large excavated hole partly filled with piles of wood and metal from the collapse. Excavators sat on the bottom, alongside three pickup trucks that were standing on end against the walls after tumbling over the edge.
Officials say there were about 20 workers at the site before the collapse, and that all had been accounted for.
“It is with sadness that I learn of the death of a worker in the collapse of a structure in Blainville,” said Quebec’s Labour Minister Jean Boulet in a statement.
“I offer my sympathies to their loved ones and colleagues, and I am also thinking of the injured workers.”
The province’s workplace safety board and the agency that enforces the construction code will investigate what happened.
–with files from The Canadian Press
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