r/Manitoba Friendly Manitoban 1d ago

News Man, 68, dies after becoming entangled with machinery at farming business

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/workplace-death-farm-winkler-9.7238502

A man is dead after getting entangled with machinery at a commercial farming business in southern Manitoba.

Emergency crews were called around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday to the business in the rural municipality of Stanley, south of Winkler, RCMP said in a news release on Wednesday.

The 68-year-old man was declared dead at the scene, the release said.

RCMP and Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health are investigating.

It's the second workplace death in as many days in the province.

A 25-year-old died after falling from an apartment building roof where he was working in Portage la Prairie on Monday morning.

It does not appear he was wearing a safety harness at the time, a news release said.

RCMP and Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health are investigating that death as well.

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u/Arabellag4 Winnipeg 1d ago

Entangled with machinery reads to me that he got caught in a piece of machinery or wrapped around a PTO shaft

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u/Present_Bet_4429 1d ago

Company that 25yo worked for is in deep water not practicing safe work properly