Canadian police investigating after man is killed by falling wrecking ball.
Red police tape cordoned off a crane in the yard of Montreal Tracteur in the industrial sector of Baie d’Urfé, the site of mid-morning accident Friday in which a man died when a wrecking ball fell on him.
“We’re all shocked … we don’t know what happened exactly,” said one inside employee who did not want his name published.
Pierre Turgeon, spokesman for Commission de la Santé et de la Sécurité du Travail du Québec, the province’s occupational health and safety commission, said preliminary reports stated that the man, who was not an employee at Montreal Tracteur, was standing in a metal container at 10:30 a.m. when a 300 kg wrecking ball apparently got unhooked from a crane and fell on his head.
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