Greater than 24 hours after a multi-storey scaffold collapsed at a Quebec paper mill, rescue crews proceed to seek for two staff trapped within the particles.
Quebec provincial police, who’re supporting the rescue operation, say rescuers nonetheless haven’t made contact with the 2 staff however that it stays a rescue operation.
Learn extra:
Two workers remain trapped after scaffold collapse at Domtar plant in Eastern Townships
The incident came about shortly after 1:30 a.m. Tuesday on the Domtar mill in Windsor, Que., about 150 kilometres east of Montreal.
On Tuesday afternoon, mill supervisor Sylvain Bricault mentioned the rescue operation was sophisticated by the quantity of particles from the scaffold, which was as tall because the mill.
One other employee who was injured within the collapse was transported to hospital and is anticipated to outlive.
The employees are employed by a contracting agency that’s doing main work on the mill.
© 2021 The Canadian Press
