Man dies in workplace accident near Hamiota
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A 55-year-old man died Wednesday after a workplace accident at a construction site east of Hamiota, Manitoba RCMP said in a news release Thursday.
Mounties and local firefighters responded to the incident just after 1 p.m., after receiving a report that the driver of a skid steer accidentally backed the machine into a deep hole that had been dug, RCMP said.
The victim was confirmed dead at the scene.
RCMP and Manitoba Workplace Health and Safety are investigating, police said.
The man is the second person to die in a workplace accident in Manitoba in recent weeks. A 42-year-old man died after being pulled into machinery at a manufacturing factory in the Rhineland Industrial Park north of Altona on Jan. 15.
The Labour Program is leading the investigation into that incident because it occurred at a federally regulated facility. A spokesperson for Employment and Social Development Canada confirmed the accident occurred at Buffalo Creek Mills, a local oat manufacturing facility.