crushed

By Chelsey St-Pierre
The Suburban

A man in his thirties died tragically at his workplace, a steel distribution company on Hymus Boulevard in Pointe-Claire, last Thursday. He was crushed under more than a ton of steel rollers. For reasons yet undetermined, the steel fell on the man.

When first responders arrived, his death was pronounced nearly immediately on site. Firefighters that were dispatched to the scene to recover the victim, who was initially inaccessible and trapped under the rollers weighing more than 2,000 pounds, faced a tragic reality that the man could not be saved and were tasked with recovering his body.

Montreal police investigators are also investigating the possibility of criminal negligence in this case. The early results of the investigation revealed that no criminal element was involved and that the incident appears to be an unfortunate accident.

Inspectors from the Commission for Standards, Equity, Health and Safety at Work (CNESST) arrived on site later in the afternoon on Thursday to try to establish the circumstances surrounding the accident.