Worker dies at New Glasgow foundry

Labour officials and police are investigating aftera 59-year-old Trenton, N.S., man died at a foundry in Pictou County on Tuesday.

Lloyd Keith Fancy was killed while working at a loading dock at Maritime Steel and Foundries Ltd. in New Glasgow at about 6:30 p.m. Department of Labour officials saidit appearedFancywas struck with a container being loaded onto a truck.

No foul play is suspected, police said.

Immediately after the accident, the LabourDepartment shut down the hydraulic loading dock, ordered that lights be installed in the outdoor area and requested maintenance records for the dock.

The foundry isowned by the family of industrialist R.B. Cameron and makes steel and manganese castings for therailway, mining, construction and other industries.The company, which employs about 75 people, has had workplace deaths before.

Maritime Steel was convicted on two charges under the provincial Occupational Health and Safety Act in 1993,afterafatal injuryin 1992. The company was fined $3,000 after the conviction.

Another worker was killed in 2000, when he was struck in the headby a steel girder. The company was fined $3,600.

Investigators with the police department's major crime unit and the Labour Department were on the scene until late Tuesday night.