Man dies in work accident in downtown Montreal

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He had been working on a building under construction at the corner of Cathcart and Square-Phillips streets at the heart of the city’s commercial district. 

Police are assisting Quebec’s workplace health and safety board as it investigates

Verity Stevenson · CBC News ·

cops and cop car in front of building under construction
Montreal police were at the corner of Cathcart and Square-Phillips streets downtown Wednesday after a man died in a work accident. (Simon-Marc Charron/Radio-Canada)

A man has died in a work accident that in downtown Montreal on Wednesday. 

He had been working on a building under construction at the corner of Cathcart and Square-Phillips streets at the heart of the city’s commercial district. 

Several Montreal police officers were on site Wednesday afternoon as onlookers and other workers gathered in the area.

CBC News will update this story with more information as it comes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Verity is a reporter for CBC in Montreal. She previously worked for the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Telegraph-Journal and the Sherbrooke Record. She’s originally from the Eastern Townships and has gone to school both in French and English.

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