Still no answers in child’s death

(Update)

Hamilton police are continuing their investigation into a deadly accident that killed a nine-year old boy on Sunday. Emergency workers were called to an East-end fabricating plant just after one-thirty after reports of a young child being hit by falling steel.

Police said late Monday evening that they are no longer holding the site at 65 Imperial Drive. The Regional Coroners office said that the cause of death was blunt force trauma. But both that office, and the Ministry of Labour, will continue their investigation to determine precisely what happened, and whether recommendations should be made to prevent a similar tragedy.

The young boy was a grade three student at Sir Wilfred Laurier School, on Albright Road, in the city’s east end. Parents of children at the school described him as a “good kid” and “a class clown.”

Grief counsellors were at the school, and a letter to parents notifying them of the tragedy was sent home with students.

There is no information yet on whether there was work going on in the plant Sunday afternoon, or what the nature of the work may have been. But police told us that there were employees in the plant at the time, and that the boy was in the company of a family member, at the time of the accident.