One dies in manlift tipover

EDMONTON — An Alberta worker is dead following an incident in which the manlift he was operating at an Edmonton construction site tipped over after being struck by a piece of structural steel.

At about 2:30 pm on October 18, two ironworkers were using their respective manlifts to place I-beams on the skeletal structure of a warehouse being built, says Barrie Harrison, an Alberta Human Services spokesperson in Edmonton.

“For reasons unknown, this very large I-beam fell and it struck one of the lifts,” Harrison says. The contact caused the lift to tip over and both the machine and the 28-year-old employee of Spartan Steel fell 15 metres to the ground, he adds.

A stop-work order was issued for the site, the prime contractor for which is Dawson Wallace Construction Ltd.

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