Fatal Dorval industrial accident settlement contested

  Nicola Di Ielsi, left, died on the morning of April 4, 2011 after being crushed by a mammoth metal spool at his workplace at Bailey Metal Works Ltd, near Dorval Airport. (Trudeau Aiport?)

An attempt to unbend the spool turned fatal

   He was driving a cart carrying a pallet of heavy metal spools, they fell off and got mangled and a couple of hours later he sought to unbend them.
   The first one was successfully unbent but the second wasn't cooperating a couple of colleagues concocted a method of trying to put pressure on it but instead if flew out and crushed his thorax and killed him (see CSST report here).
   Di Ielsi was 30 at the time and had a wife and a young child who sought to cash in on his $60,000 life insurance policy. (Yes it would seem to me that there should be a lot more but it appears that was the total amount). His widow Laura Blasi learned, however, that her husband's brother, who helped him fill out the insurance form, was listed as the beneficiary.
   She went to court to get the money but a few days ago, a judge sided with the brother who apparently gets to keep the money.
   Sad story.