A MAN has died after falling eight metres from a grain bunker in Geelong.
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An Ambulance Victoria spokeswoman said paramedics were called to the GrainCorp site at the Geelong Port Terminal about 4.05pm yesterday and declared the man, 40, dea adt the scene.
He had been putting a tarpaulin on the bunker when he fell, a Worksafe Victoria spokesman said.
Worksafe inspectors were investigating what caused the man to fall from the bunker.
It is the 16th traumatic workplace death in Victoria this year.