Police say a man has died following an industrial accident at a downtown construction site on Monday.
Emergency responders were called to the site near Lower Jarvis Street and Queens Quay just before 11:30 a.m.
Joseph Mancinelli, vice-president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, told the John Oakley Show on AM640 it’s believed the worker was hit and crushed by a pre-cast concrete slab that had come off of a truck.
Paramedics said the man did not have vital signs when he arrived at hospital.
Mancinelli identified the worker as a 35-year-old pre-cast concrete erector with LiUNA Local 506.
“When you hear about a 35 year old that’s not going to make it home to his family, it’s pretty heartbreaking,” he said.
The circumstances surrounding the man’s death are being investigated by the Ministry of Labour.
With files from Danny Longo, AM640