Man falls from roof, impaled on metal picket
A contractor has been killed after falling off a roof at a property north of Bendigo.
The man in his sixties was believed to have been working with another person on a verandah roof in Neilborough when he fell and was impaled on a metal picket.
WorkSafe Victoria is investigating the incident.
The fatality brings the number of workplace deaths this year to 11 — two more than at the same time last year.
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