Coroner sets inquest date for fatality of construction worker

PORT PERRY, Ont. – An inquest into the Dec. 13, 2013 electrocution death of construction worker Wayne Affleck has been announced, according to a news release from the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (MCSCS). Dr. David Eden, the Regional Supervising Coroner for Inquests, revealed on April 18 that the inquest will begin on June 5 at 10 a.m. at the Durham Region Courthouse in Oshawa, Ont., the release stated. The inquest is expected to include testimony from about 12 witnesses and to last for three days, with Dr. Monique Moreau presiding as the inquest coroner and Michael Hill as her counsel. Affleck, who was 27 years old, was an Enerquest Services Inc. employee who received a shock from a transformer while installing a door interlock at a solar-farm construction site and later died in a Port Perry hospital. Enerquest was fined $110,000 for the incident last year (COHSN, June 14). The inquest is mandatory under the provincial Coroners Act, the MCSCS stated.

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