A spokesperson for the TSB told Global News it happened at 12: 50 p.m. in the Pointe-Saint-Charles yard belonging to the Canadian National Railway.

The Ministry of Labour has been called in to investigate a fatal workplace accident at a scrap metal and construction waste disposal business in Mount Hope.

A coroner's inquest was called on Monday to examine Matthew Cuthill's death in Prince Edward County.

Irving spokeswoman Mary Keith says the truck left a woods road roughly 40 kilometres from Saint-Leonard at about 6 p.m. Wednesday.

The Teamsters Canada union says a train conductor employed by Canadian Pacific Railway died earlier this week following a workplace accident in Calgary.

A contractor at Teck Resources' Fording River Operations in southeastern B.C. has died, the company said.

Chief Coroner Gregory Forestell announced the inquest will take place on March 19-21 at the Best Western Plus Woodstock Hotel and Conference Centre.

"We can confirm that one person has been fatally injured at a workplace. WorkSafeBC is on scene and is investigating."

In a rare move, the director of an excavation company has been sentenced to jail time for his role in a trench collapse in Edmonton that killed a contract worker in April 2015.

WorkSafeNB has confirmed to Global News that a man in his 40s has died following a workplace accident near Lameque, N.B. on Tuesday.