A 43-YEAR-OLD man died after collapsing at work, police said.
The incident is said to have happened at Howard Basford Limited, a car accident repair workshop, in Burnley Road, Altham, at around 2.50pm on Monday.
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The man, who has not been named, was taken to Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital by ambulance but was later pronounced dead.
It is believed he may have suffered a heart attack.
Police are not treating the man’s death as suspicious and his family have been informed.
Police said a file has been prepared for the coroner.
A police spokesman said: “At 4.20pm on Monday we were called by the ambulance service to reports a man in his 40s had been taken ill.
“He was taken to Royal Blackburn Hospital where he sadly died.
“There are no suspicious circumstances and a file will be passed to the coroner.”
An ambulance service spokesman said: “We were were called to Howard Basford in Burnley Road, Altham, at 2.50pm on February 13 to reports a man in his mid-40s collapsed .
“He was taken to Royal Blackburn Hospital.”
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