A worker sustained fatal injuries in the French River area late Wednesday, according to the Ministry of Labour.
“It was reported to us that a worker sustained fatal injuries while they were working on a light stand generator,” said ministry spokesperson Janet Deline.
Another local media outlet is reporting the worker was electrocuted, but that has not been confirmed by Sudbury.com.
Ministry of Labour inspectors visited the scene, but so far no orders have been issued, Deline said.
She wasn't able to provide any further information, not even the company that employed the worker.
“I only have preliminary stuff at this point,” Deline said.
This is the fourth fatal workplace accident in the Greater Sudbury area so far in 2017.
In February, 39-year-old Sudbury man Rhéal Dionne died while driving a dump truck at Rainbow Concrete.
His father said he was told his son was using the truck to haul snow Feb. 15 when he drove it through an archway on company property, and part of the structure collapsed onto the vehicle.
The heavy debris crashed through the top of the truck's cab, crushing Dionne.
In April, Cecchetto and Sons employee Ron Lepage, 59, was also killed in a dump truck accident. He was pinned under the tires of a dump truck April 6, sustaining fatal injuries.
Lepage was disposing waste materials in the Vale tailings area for the mining company's Clean AER project at the time.
And in August, 53-year-old Carl Peltier of Wikwemikong, who worked for the Wikwemikong company Prosteel North, was killed after the trusses collapsed at a private, residential worksite in Chelmsford.
