{"id":537332,"date":"2026-03-13T07:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537332\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T07:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:50:11","slug":"man-dies-after-suffering-electric-shock-at-workplace-in-sydneys-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537332\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after suffering electric shock at workplace in Sydney&#8217;s west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has died when he suffered an electric shock while at work in Sydney&#8217;s west this afternoon.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to \ufeffBillington Place in Emu Plains at 1.30pm today after receiving reports a man had been injured as he performed maintenance on a building.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics tried to save the man, believed to be aged in his 40s, but he died at the scene.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7665d69b-18f7-40c5-a83a-70919dd98c4c.jpeg\"   alt=\"A man has died after he was reportedly electrocuted at a workplace in Sydney's west.&#xFEFF;\"\/>A man has died after he was reportedly electrocuted at a workplace in Sydney&#8217;s west.\ufeff (Getty)<\/p>\n<p>He is yet to be formally identified.<\/p>\n<p>A report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n<p>Police have set up a crime scene but the incident is not being treated as suspicious.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Billington Place will remain closed to the public for some time while inquiries continue at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>SafeWork NSW inspectors are investigating the incident. \u202f\u202f<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SafeWork NSW has been notified and is responding to an incident at a workplace at Emu Plains where a worker has experienced an electric shock,&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died when he suffered an electric shock while at work in Sydney&#8217;s west this afternoon.\ufeff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-537332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}