05:23 pm, Friday 5 February, 2010

A contractor has been electrocuted while working in the roof of a house in North Queensland yesterday.

The 25-year-old man was installing insulation in the ceiling of a Millaa Millaa house when he suffered an electric shock.

The paramedics who arrived on the scene performed CPR on the man, but he could not be resuscitated. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

This is the third death connected installation of insulation in Queensland since the rebate scheme was initiated by the Federal Government.

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