Construction company confirms Perth worker's death after truck rolls at quarry

[WA Today]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, 20th June, 2019 PM News Update [The truck following the incident.]( [Construction company confirms Perth worker's death after truck rolls at quarry]( BY Hannah Barry The man, believed to be in his 40s, was driving the dumptruck along the face of the Hanson Construction's Redhill quarry just before 7.15am when it tipped into the pit. --------------------------------------------------------------- Top stories [Former Perth prosecutor's drunk tomahawk rampage 'terrifying']( A former prosecutor who went on a rampage in his Perth apartment block, assaulting three people and smashing doors with a tomahawk has been sentenced to intensive supervision. 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