My heart goes out to the family of this young man.  He was 19 years old with a full life ahead of him.  What a tragic accident. 

Ottawa Personal Injury Lawyer David Hollingsworth— The Ottawa Citizen reported that Ontario’s Ministry of Labour is investigating the tragic death of a 19-year-old man who was crushed between two pieces of heavy equipment Wednesday while on the job, working at a new Kanata housing development.

The young man was distributing pay slips to fellow Colautti Construction Ltd. employees at 7:30 a.m. when he was caught between a large excavator and a backhoe, the labour ministry said. Regrettably, a coroner pronounced him dead at the scene. An employee at the site said the man was new on the job, but had worked for the company for a period last summer. Employees at the construction site, at Kanata Avenue and Keyrock Drive near Richardson Side Road, took off their hard hats as the man’s body was lifted into a black van and driven away as a sign of respect.