Alberta Occupational Health and Safety says it is now conducting a fatality investigation after a man was buried under several feet of dirt and clay on a work site Tuesday evening.
The man was buried when a trench at a home construction site near 107th Avenue and 124th Street collapsed on top of him.
At 5 a.m. Wednesday, Brookes Merritt with OHS said the 55-year-old man had died.
OHS workers remained on-scene overnight as efforts were made to free the man, who was working for the Bissell Centre Temporary Labour Agency.
The agency had been contracted by a sub-contractor to do some work at the site. The man had been working with a backhoe operator to dig a trench to lay sewer pipes when he was buried.
Merritt said OHS will be looking into what happened on the worksite prior to and during the incident, as well as investigating whether the trench work was being done in a safe manner.
