UPDATE: The employer of the Rochester man crushed by a bitumen roller today has released more information about the fatal incident.
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A joint statement from McConnell Dowell and Martinus Rail said the death occurred at a site used to store machinery being used for the Murray Basin Rail Project.
The companies are tasked with delivering the rail project.
Workers affected by today’s events were being offering counselling, and both companies extended their sympathies to the family of the deceased man.
The man's death brings to 21 the number of Victorians killed at work this year, compared to 24 for the same time last year.
EARLIER: A Rochester man has been crushed to death in a workplace tragedy today in Mildura.
The 58-year-old man was visiting a landscape supplier when a bitumen roller being loaded onto a trailer moved unexpectedly.
V/Line has said the man was an employee of the McConnell Dowell Martinus Rail Joint Venture, which has been charged with delivering the Murray Basin Rail Project.
He became pinned between the roller and the trailer. Police and paramedics both conducted CPR but the man died at the scene.
WorkSafe Victoria is aware of the incident and its investigators are en route to the site of the incident.
It is understood the tragedy occurred at the intersection of Seventeenth Street and Walnut Avenue, Mildura.
Police will prepare a report for the coroner.
It's the second workplace fatality within a week in regional Victoria. The body of a man in his 50s was found on a property at Yarck last Thursday morning. It's believed he died after falling off his motorbike.
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