A 32-year-old man died Friday afternoon after becoming trapped and run over by a forklift while performing a maneuver in Sainte-Thérèse, in the Laurentians.
According to Julien Steben, an inspector with the Thérèse-De Blainville Intermunicipal Police Board (RIPTB), emergency services were called at approximately 5 p.m. to respond to a scene outside 217 René-A.-Robert Boulevard.
The victim was then transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Steben noted that the man was alone at the time of the maneuver and that, therefore, no one else was injured.
He added that a review of surveillance footage quickly confirmed that this was a workplace accident. Inspectors from the Commission des normes, de l’équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CNESST) have therefore taken over the investigation.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
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