WATCH ABOVE: Occupational Health and Safety confirming a man is dead following a work place accident in Lethbridge. Paul Kingsmith reports.
EDMONTON — Occupational Health and Safety is investigating after a man died following a fall at a construction site in Lethbridge Wednesday afternoon.
Wayne Wood, a spokesperson with OHS, said a 51-year-old man was “completing welding activities” on the roof of a school when he fell 30 feet. It happened at a yet-to-be-named elementary school in Legacy Ridge.
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Wood said the man was pronounced dead in hospital.
Wood said the employer voluntarily stopped work when the incident happened.
The name of the victim has not been released.