TORONTO – A 50-year-old Toronto transit worker has died of his injuries a week after he was pinned by two vehicles at an east-end transit yard.
Tom Dedes was pinned between a vehicle and a train at around 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 1 and was taken to hospital in “very serious” condition.
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Dedes had worked for the transit agency for 18 years most recently as a subway track maintenance employee, according to the Toronto Transit Commission.
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The TTC says Dedes and his co-workers were off-loading equipment from a pickup truck onto a workcar at the yard when he became pinned between the two vehicles.
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Mayor John Tory offered condolences to Dedes’ family on Monday, adding the city will take whatever steps are needed to make sure a tragedy like this doesn’t happens again.
The Ontario Ministry of Labour and the TTC are both investigating the incident.
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