A 55-year-old hydro worker has died after falling approximately 30 metres from a hydro tower Friday afternoon.

Paramedics say the fall happened on Wilhaven Drive and Frank Kenny Road in Cumberland at about 4 p.m. Friday. The man and his co-workers were assembling the hydro poll. The tower has no power lines.

His co-workers immediately began CPR but the man was declared deceased when paramedics arrived.