CNESST investigating incident in Montreal and issued one order
Quebec’s workplace safety board (CNESST) is investigating after a man in his thirties died over the weekend while working at a construction site in Montreal.
“The worker was doing insulation work when the accident occurred in the Rivière-des-Prairies district of Montreal,” says CNEEST in a statement to Canadian Occupational Safety.
It is not clear who the employer is, but CNESST says it did issue one order. “Following the accident, the CNESST prohibited the use of the equipment involved in this accident.”
This is the second construction death this month in Montreal. Last week the 31-year-old president of Onyx Concrete Finishing and Repair died while moving a mini-excavator in a residential backyard.
Both deaths come at time when health and safety provisions governing Quebec’s construction industry are at the centre of controversy.
New provisions are set to come into effect in the new year, making it mandatory for a union health and safety representative to be on construction sites. But constructions employers are asking for the new laws to be delayed. Unions have protested any possible postponements.
