The father of a 17-year-old Grand Falls teenager who died while working at the local Wal-Mart says he is furious after receiving a $130 bill for his son's ambulance ride.

Fabien Desjardins said he and his wife are upset after receiving the ambulance bill from the night their son Patrick, 17, was taken from the store to Grand Falls General Hospital.

Police suspect the teenager was electrocuted while using a buffing machine to clean the floor of the store's garage on Jan. 6. Grand Falls police say it appears there was an electrical defect in the machine's cord.

The family is considering legal action.

Fabien Desjardins said in an interview last week that he refuses to call his son's death a workplace accident.

"We're not calling this an accident," Desjardins told the CBC.

"If you're driving down the road and you hit a moose, that's an accident. If a drunk driver hits you and kills your whole family, that's not an accident, that's negligence."

Ambulance New Brunswick said in a statement Tuesday that while their condolences go out to the family for the loss of their son, it is required by law to send the bill, regardless of a patient's outcome and the outcome of a patient is not known to the billing department.

Health Minister Madeleine Dubé wouldn't comment on the case Tuesday, but repeated a Conservative campaign promise to remove ambulance fees.

Meanwhile, WorkSafeNB said it will not release any further information about its investigation into the death until the second week of April.