More than 24 hours after a multi-storey scaffold collapsed at a Quebec paper mill, rescue crews found the two workers who were trapped in the debris dead.
Though Quebec provincial police haven’t yet confirmed that the men were found dead, condolence messages began flooding social media Wednesday evening paying tribute to two workers who went missing in the accident.
“Thank you to everyone who sent words of encouragement, positivity and prayers. After 40 hours of searching, they finally found my brother, but he had already left for a better world, in heaven with our father,” the sister of one of the victims wrote on Facebook.
The CSN union also released a statement confirming the two deaths.
“The CSN deplores that two of the workers involved in the collapse at the Domtar plant were reportedly found dead at the end of that day,” the union said Wednesday night.
“One death at work is always one death too many. All our sympathies to the families and relatives of the two victims.”
The incident took place shortly after 1:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Domtar mill in Windsor, Que., about 150 kilometres east of Montreal in the Eastern Townships.
On Tuesday afternoon, mill manager Sylvain Bricault said the rescue operation was complicated by the amount of debris from the scaffold, which was as tall as the mill.
Another worker who was injured in the collapse was transported to hospital and is expected to survive.
The workers are employed by a contracting firm that is doing major work at the mill.
–with files from Alessia Maratta, Global News
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