Construction worker killed by truck in Chelsea
Police in western Quebec's MRC des Collines-de-l'Outaouais say a 63-year-old worker from Bouchette was killed when he was pinned between two heavy vehicles at a Chelsea construction site Monday morning.
In a news release, the department said officers were called to a construction zone on chemin de la Rivière south of chemin Saint-Clément around 7:15 a.m.
The victim was fuelling a tractor when a colleague backed a heavy truck into him, police said. That man was trapped and pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said they are investigating and Quebec's workplace standards body CNESST was called.
The municipality said in a news release that road rehabilitation work was happening in the area.
It has closed chemin de la Rivière to everyone but people living there between chemin Carnochan and chemin de la Carrière, along with that stretch of its multi-use path.
This was the second heavy truck death in the area that morning: a 70-year-old man was pronounced dead in hospital Monday morning after rolling his truck west of Wakefield.
