The death in the Diver Lake neighbourhood came just hours after a worker died on a construction site on Bear Mountain
The B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed that one person died at a Nanaimo construction site on Wednesday afternoon.
Nanaimo Fire, RCMP and multiple ambulances responded to the construction site in the 3700-block of Shenton Road in the Diver Lake neighbourhood.WorkSafeBC has also sent a team to investigate the death, but said it is not able to share any further information while an investigation is underway. The incident happened just hours after a construction worker was killed at a project in the 1400-block of Pinehurst Place in Langford on Bear Mountain.
On Sept. 7, crane rigger Kyle McIntyre was working at a construction site in Chinatown when a 4,000-pound load of reinforced concrete and heavy-duty plywood molds for forming concrete fell on him from a height of about 10 or 12 feet.
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