{"id":105863,"date":"2026-06-27T06:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/105863\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T06:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:22:51","slug":"man-dead-after-falling-from-escalator-at-toronto-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/105863\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead after falling from escalator at Toronto mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One man is dead after falling from an escalator at the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/riocan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:RioCan;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;RioCan&quot;}\" class=\"link \">RioCan<\/a> Empress Walk Plaza in North York Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Toronto police said they were called to the mall around 5 p.m. following reports of an industrial accident. The man involved was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lucas Hay said he arrived at the mall around 6 p.m. and saw police tape surrounding the escalator that goes from the ground floor to the second floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe saw a blanket over [the ground] and a lot of cops and security guards just around and then eventually we were outside and we saw people coming out [of the mall],\u201d he told Global News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said an announcement was made on the intercom telling shoppers the mall was closed and asking everyone to leave. He said no reason was provided for the closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThere was no panic at all. It was just because there were a lot of people around so they had to slowly usher everyone out,\u201d Hay said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RioCan, the company that manages the mall, told Global News in a statement Thursday evening that it is fully co-operating with an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Toronto police confirmed Friday morning the incident is not criminal in nature and that the investigation is being led by the Ministry of Labour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, the ministry said in a statement \u201cthe incident did not involve a worker or workplace activity and does not fall under the ministry\u2019s jurisdiction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One man is dead after falling from an escalator at the RioCan Empress Walk Plaza in North York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[37775,13079,37776,37777,48,3100],"class_list":["post-105863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-escalator","tag-global-news","tag-industrial-accident","tag-lucas-hay","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}