The Sudbury Star is the City of Greater Sudbury’s daily newspaper.
A mass of Christian burial will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at St. Joseph Church in Chelmsford for the millwright killed on the job at Vale’s Copper Cliff Smelter Complex on Sunday. Paul Rochette, 36, died of severe head trauma at the scene after a large piston on a belt that was crushing ingots of smelted copper-nickel broke off between the smelting and matte processing stages.
Another millwright, a 28-year-old man, suffered a concussion and facial lacerations, but was in stable condition Monday at Health Sciences North’s Ramsey Lake Health Centre. There was no word on his condition Tuesday.
Rochette is survived by his two young children, Isabella and Skyler, parents Eddy and Sue Rochette of Val Caron, sister Angele Kirwan (Ryan) of Val Caron and brother Dan (Nadine Gosselin) of Napanee. In his obituary, it said Rochette will be missed by his best friend, Jessica Daoust, as well as by several nieces and nephews, and many friends, relatives and coworkers.
Visitation will be held Wednesday at Co-operative Funeral Home in Sudbury from 2-5 p.m. and from 7-9:30 p.m. Rochette was described Monday by Vale’s Kelly Strong as experienced, skilled and well trained for his job as an industrial mechanic at the smelter’s casting and crushing plant, as was the younger millwright who was injured.