WAKAW, Sask. – A SaskPower employee is dead after a workplace accident Saturday evening. Mounties say it happened around 9:30 p.m. south of Wakaw, Sask.
A Saskatoon man was part of a crew repairing the top wire of a high-voltage transmission line when he was electrocuted. The 45-year-old man was rushed to Rosthern Hospital by paramedics where he was pronounced dead. His name has not been released.
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Provincial health and safety officers and SaskPower safety officials are investigating. RCMP have completed their investigation and say there was no foul play involved.
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