Twenty-one years after Sault Ste. Marie's Beth Mattila died at age 59 after 21 tons of steel fell on her at Algoma Steel, her son was killed this week in a similar freak accident in Hamilton, Ontario.
The Hamilton Spectator is reporting today that Rick Yates, 55, was fatally crushed on Thursday by a lugger box truck.
To read the Spectator's coverage, please click here.
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