Hydro worker critically injured after incident near Toronto's harbourfront

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· Posted: Mar 28, 2025 6:56 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

A antheral is successful captious information aft a imaginable electrocution overnight Thursday adjacent Toronto's harbourfront, exigency crews said. 

Fire crews were called to the country of Rees Street and Queens Quay W. astir 1.50 a.m. for reports of an concern accident. 

A hydro idiosyncratic was successful a vault and was perchance electrocuted, Toronto Fire said. The unfortunate was taken retired by firefighters and taken to hospital.

Paramedics said the unfortunate is successful critical, life-threatening condition. 

Police said the unfortunate is simply a antheral successful his 30s. Another idiosyncratic sustained non-life threatening injuries, constabulary said successful a station connected X. 

The Ministry of Labour is investigating. 

There is an ongoing powerfulness outage successful the country that began astir 1:54 a.m., according to the Toronto Hydro website. Around 792 customers are affected. 

Crews are onsite and powerfulness is expected to instrumentality to the country astir 8 a.m, the website said. 

CBC Toronto has reached retired to Toronto Hydro and the Ministry of Labour for comment.