Roofer who died from fall at Ottawa construction site wasn't clipped in
The day construction worker Robert Cyr fell from a residence to his death, Michele Lavergne said he could sense the potential danger of the icy and snowy roof they were working on.
“It was a bad day, too. I didn’t want to go up,” Lavergne, a roofer, told an inquest at city hall on Tuesday about Cyr, who died on Nov. 24, 2015.
He was 47.
The inquest heard Robert Cyr was not clipped on to any safety anchors and had narcotics in his system when he fell from the slippery roof
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