Man dies after falling while working on billboard in Toronto

Published Feb 03, 2025 • Last updated Feb 03, 2025 • < 1 minute read

A Toronto Police cruiser is seen on Aug. 6, 2024. Photo by Ernest Doroszuk /Toronto Sun

A man has died in an industrial accident in the city’s Annex neighbourhood on Monday morning.

Toronto Police say a man was working on a billboard in the Bathurst and Dupont Sts. area around 8:40 a.m. when he fell from a ladder.

Police, Toronto Fire and paramedics all attended the scene and paramedics performed life-saving measures but the man died.

The Ministry of Labour has been notified.

No information on the man or who he worked for was immediately released.

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