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The day construction worker Robert Cyr fell from a residence to his death, Michel Lavergne said he could sense the potential danger of the icy and snowy roof they were working on.

“It was a bad day, too. I didn’t want to go up,” Lavergne, a roofer, told an inquest at city hall on Tuesday about Cyr, who died on Nov. 24, 2015.

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He was 47.

The inquest heard Robert Cyr was not clipped on to any safety anchors and had narcotics in his system when he fell from the slippery roof of a four-storey residential building at 2540 Innes Rd. in Gloucester.

Lavergne said he had hired Cyr to help him install a water and ice shield on the roof and planned to pay him under the table. At the time, Laverne was working for himself, but Elias Brothers Construction hired him to help with the job.

In his testimony, Lavergne said he did not ask at the time if Cyr had received any safety training on heights or falls, which is mandated by the Ontario Ministry of Labour. Lavergne said he’s been working as a roofer for more than 30 years but only received the training in the last three to four years.