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Calgary man found dead after accident at drilling site: RCMP

File photo of an RCMP cruiser. File / Global News

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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