{"id":746799,"date":"2026-06-19T07:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/746799\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T07:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:27:36","slug":"worker-impaled-by-steel-rod-at-kirkland-construction-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/746799\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker impaled by steel rod at Kirkland construction site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A construction worker was injured Thursday morning after falling into formwork and being impaled by a steel rod at a construction site in Kirkland.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal firefighters responded to the incident around 10 a.m. at the construction site on Brunswick Blvd. across from Syrah St.<\/p>\n<p>The construction site is for the future Lacey Green Village development, a large residential project.<\/p>\n<p>The worker suffered abdominal injuries after being impaled by the rod, the fire department said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe individual was conscious and in stable condition,\u201d said Kevin Francoeur, a section chief with the Montreal fire department.<\/p>\n<p>A technical rescue team carried out the evacuation before transferring the worker into the care of Urgences-Sant\u00e9 paramedics.<\/p>\n<p>Further information about the worker\u2019s condition was not immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A construction worker was injured Thursday morning after falling into formwork and being impaled by a steel rod&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-746799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}