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A worker has died at the site of a municipal sewer project in Upper Stoney Creek.

Emergency responders were called to Upper Centennial Parkway and Rymal Road East, just before 2 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, for what the Hamilton Fire Department termed a “confined space rescue.”

Ministry of Labour and the @HamiltonPolice are investigating after a worker killed while inside a sanitary sewer tunnel under construction on Upper Centennial in Hamilton. @HamiltonFireDep crews utilizing rope & confined space responses on scene. @HPS_Paramedics staging #HamOnt pic.twitter.com/PxcFj8EFaF — Andrew Collins (@ACollinsPhoto) June 21, 2018

Hamilton police say the worker was later pronounced dead at the scene.

The $52-million project, scheduled to be finished in February 2019, involves an almost seven-kilometre sanitary sewer from Green Mountain Road to the area of Guyatt Road.

It will provide servicing that is needed to support additional planned growth in Binbrook.

Several emergency vehicles in the area of Upper Centennial and Rymal Road assisting with an industrial accident. HPS is asking the public to take an alternate route. One NB lane on Upper Centennial is closed. @HamiltonFireDep #HamOnt pic.twitter.com/xnILq1po8j — Hamilton Police (@HamiltonPolice) June 21, 2018

The investigation is now in the hands of the coroner and Ontario’s Ministry of Labour.

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