Man fatally crushed by truck, labour ministry investigating
Thursday, November 29th, 2007A 63-year-old man was crushed and killed by a dump truck he was working on in the city’s north end.
The man was working on the truck at a company site on Bridgeland Ave., in the Dufferin Ave. and Highway 401 area, Toronto police Staff Sgt. Rob DiDanieli said.
A part of the flatbed hydraulic truck, the type that drags large waste bins onto its bed, came down, crushing the man. He was pronounced dead on scene.
Investigators don’t yet know what caused the truck’s platform to come down on the man.
The Ministry of Labour visited the scene and is investigating. The address is a building used by Wasteco, a waste-disposal company.
The victim’s name hasn’t been released.
