Two workers suffered serious injuries after falling from a communications tower in Candiac in the Montérégie on Friday.
According to the Régie intermunicipale de police Roussillon, the incident occurred around 9 a.m. on a construction site at the intersection of Montcalm and de Verre streets.
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The scale of the communications tower reportedly broke down, according to police.
The two men were unconscious but breathing when taken to hospital.
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An inspector from CNESST, the province’s commission for standards, equity, health and safety at work, and police investigators are trying to shed light on the incident.
— With files from Global News’ Kalina Laframboise
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