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Workplace safety board's investigation found employees were left to improvise dangerous ways to clear snow from the wheels that make the Grande Roue turn.
MONTREAL — Quebec's workplace safety board is blaming deficient safety practices at the ferris wheel in Montreal's Old Port for the death of a worker at the tourist attraction on Christmas Day 2021.
Riley Valcin, 22, was clearing snow from the drive mechanism while the wheel was in operation and was caught in the machinery. The board says the area where Valcin died should never have been accessible to workers.
A vigil was held Wednesday evening in Montreal's Old Port to honour the 22-year-old man who died in a workplace accident at the Grande Roue.
MONTREAL — The 22-year-old man who died following a Christmas Day accident at the ferris wheel in Montreal's Old Port is being remembered as a helpful