July 17, 2008

Barca Construction worker dies at Manitoba job site

WINNIPEG

Construction work on a site in south St. Vital, Manitoba was stopped last week after the death of a 20-year-old man following a construction accident, reports the Winnipeg Free Press.

Police and local residents said the accident happened at around 6 p.m., on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 outside 44 Prudhomme Bay. In this particular area of new two-storey homes near St. Mary’s Road and the Perimeter Highway, occupied homes on the street are interspersed with homes at various stages of construction.

Construction workers and local residents said the operator of a Bobcat skid steer loader, owned by Barca Construction Ltd., backed over the young man while moving gravel.

Construction workers said the driver of the vehicle climbed out after reversing over his colleague and then fainted on the road.

The victim, an employee of Barca Construction Ltd., was taken to the Health Sciences Centre where he later died.

A Manitoba Labour and Immigration spokesman said the skid steer loader has been taken for examination and a stop-work order was in place during an investigation.

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