Partial halt at condo project ordered after fall
The Ministry of Labour has issued a stop-work order at a Claridge construction site near Dow ’s Lake after a worker was injured there on Friday.
It is the same site where a construction employee died two years ago.
Janet Deline, a spokeswoman for the ministry, said the order is specifically for all work related to “fall protection” at the Icon condo building. Work involving heights is halted, but any work done on the ground can continue.
Deline said it would be the decision of the constructor Claridge Homes or the employer Bellai Brothers Construction Ltd. to shut down the entire site, at the corner of Preston Street and Carling Avenue.
On Friday, Ottawa paramedics were called to the site just after 2:30 p.m. when a construction worker was found injured on the fifth floor. He had been working on the seventh floor.
Deline confirmed in an email Monday that a forming panel had tipped, causing the worker to fall. A ministry inspector and engineer attended the scene.
The Icon condo building is the same site where Olivier Bruneau, a 25-year-old surveyor, died two years ago.
He was killed by a falling slab of ice.
The ministry said Bellai Brothers has so far complied with the order to stack materials so they cannot be tipped.
The company is still in the process of establishing a fall protection system, as well as supplying two documentation requirements.
Claridge Homes has also been issued one order for documentation.
Claridge Homes and Bellai Brothers had not responded to requests for comment as of Monday afternoon.
The ministry’s investigation is ongoing.