One person was dead and another remained trapped under rubble hours after a four−storey wall collapsed at a construction site in London, Ont., officials announced Friday, as firefighters continued digging through the debris.

A truck driver has been fined $8,000 and given a year’s probation for his role in an accident that led to the death of a pedestrian on an Aecon job site in Richmond Hill in the summer of 2019.

A worker who was removing snow from the roof of a shed fell through a skylight. The worker was not using safety equipment as required by law.

Brick & Co. Restoration was named the gold level winner of the annual Small Business Health and Safety Leadership Awards. This year is the third in a row in which a construction company has earned the gold award.

The incident occurred in January 2019 and led to the death of one of the company’s workers.