The RCMP said Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) has taken over an investigation into the death of a 35-year-old Calgary man at a drilling site northwest of Consort.
According to the RCMP, officers were called to the “workplace accident” at around 7 a.m. and found the man dead and said he appeared to have been “fatally injured during a pressure test on a drilling site.”
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Police did not say where the drilling site was located.
Global News has reached out to OHS for more details.
Consort is located about 350 kilometres northeast of Calgary.
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