Occupational Health and Safety is investigating the death of a tree planter in northern Alberta on Thursday.

Police say the worker suffered a fatal injury at the site and was pronounced dead at the scene.

TSB said Transport Canada needs to work with the rail industry to identify the cause of uncontrolled movements and develop strategies to reduce their occurrences.

An investigation is underway after a contract worker died in an incident at Syncrude's Aurora oilsands site in northern Alberta.

"He was not the kind of guy who was going to step outside of procedures and is going to end up in this kind of an accident," said Kirk McLean's brother-in-law.

According to the rail workers' union, the victim was a 56-year-old father with 32 years on the job.

Few details have been released, but WorkSafeNB says the incident happened at Devon Lumber Co. Ltd. on Gibson Street.

The Ministry of Labour has been called in to investigate a fatal workplace accident at a scrap metal and construction waste disposal business in Mount Hope.

After learning just days ago that charges have been laid in the workplace fatality, the woman's father says his family is still reeling from the incident.

Police officers and personnel with Alberta Occupational Health and Safety responded to a workplace death in northwestern Alberta, a spokesperson for the RCMP said on Tuesday evening.