A 30-year-old Tilbury man is dead after falling from a telecommunications tower at a worksite in Minden Hills in Haliburton County on Wednesday morning (January 26).
At around 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Haliburton OPP were contacted by Haliburton County Paramedic Services about a worker who had fallen from a telecommunications tower on Davis Lake Road.
The police’s initial investigation indicates that workers were onsite working on the tower on Wednesday morning when one of the workers fell. He was subsequently pronounced dead at the scene.
Police have identified the victim as 30-year-old Jacob Lundrigan of Tilbury in the municipality of Chatham-Kent.
Both the federal and provincial ministries of labour have been notified and are investigating. The Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario, OPP Forensic Identification Unit, and the Haliburton Highlands OPP Crime Unit are assisting with the investigation.
Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to call 1-888-310-1122 or 705-286-1431 or to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or online at www.khcrimestoppers.com.
