A man has died from his injuries after he was found falling into an elevator shaft at the CBC Toronto building Saturday evening.

Toronto police were called to reports of a man with serious injuries who was found “swinging from cables” from an elevator around 6:40 p.m. near Front and John Sts. in the Entertainment District, said spokesperson Const. David Hopkinson.

By 7 p.m., paramedics called the man’s injuries life-threatening and critical. Fire emergency crews were also called to try to extricate him from the elevator shaft.

Emergency workers performed CPR on the man after getting him out of the elevator, but he was pronounced dead shortly after due to the severity of his injuries, Hopkinson said.

The Ministry of Labour has been notified and will further investigate the incident.

“Because it’s handed to the ministry, it usually implies that this is a work-related or worker-related incident,” said Hopkinson, adding the victim’s family will shortly be notified which “is why we’re not revealing his identity.”

In a special Saturday night TV segment, CBC reporter Natasha Fatah confirmed the man was not an employee of the national public broadcaster. He’s “believed to have been working within the building,” she said.