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Worker Found Dead In Manure Holding Tank

By Kirk Dickinson
February 22, 2017 - 12:25am

The Ministry of Labour will be investigating after a dairy farm worker was found dead in a manure holding tank in Middlesex Centre.

The Ontario Provincial Police say on Tuesday around 1:42pm, officers responded to a rural property on Woodhull Rd. after a worker went missing.

Police conducted a search for the worker whose body was eventually found in the manure holding tank. The name of the worker has not been released.

The Ontario Ministry of Labour has been contacted and will be attending the scene.

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