Workplace incident, Waitati 19 August

Police can now release the name of the man who died in a workplace incident on 17 August.

He was 34-year-old Dunedin man Simon Patrick Sloper.

Police extend their sympathies to his family and friends.

Enquiries are ongoing into circumstances of the incident.

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