Worker dies at welding business
CBC News
Posted: Feb 7, 2012 2:15 PM AT
Last Updated: Feb 7, 2012 6:23 PM AT
Jim LeBlanc is the executive director of Occupational Health and Safety for the Department of Labour and Advanced Education. (CBC)RCMP and the Nova Scotia Department of Labour are investigating a fatality at a workplace in Kings County.
A 43-year-old man died Tuesday at Hall's Maritime Welding in Billtown, near Kentville.
"The preliminary information that I have is that the individual was working, sandblasting the box of a truck that had been elevated," said Jim LeBlanc, the executive director of Occupational Health and Safety for the Department of Labour and Advanced Education.
"As a result of a condition at the site, it tipped over and unfortunately it pinned him underneath it."
LeBlanc said the victim, who has not been identified, was employed at the family-run operation.
"Normally with any investigation, we like to determine what exactly happened, if there were witnesses that we can interview in terms of what preceded the accident," he said.
"We're looking basically to determine the root cause of the accident, what failed, to basically bring together the elements that led up to the accident."
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