A MAN has died in an horrific accident on a building site at Holmfirth.

The 36-year-old man was killed while working on the site just yards from Huddersfield Road.

He is from North Yorkshire and was working on the site for the South Yorkshire-based construction company Green Piling Ltd.

The firm, based on the outskirts of Sheffield, has been going for 10 years and works on residential and industrial sites.

No further information on what happened has been released.

The incident happened just after 8.30 yesterday morning and is thought to have involved a giant pile-driving machine.

That was in use at the Fearnought Works construction site next to the police station on Huddersfield Road.

Police, Yorkshire Ambulance Service paramedics and the Yorkshire Air Ambulance all attended.

The air ambulance landed on waste ground next to the site.

Later in the morning, officials from the contractors and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) were at the scene carrying out investigations.

An HSE spokesman confirmed that it is carrying out a full investigation into the matter in conjunction with West Yorkshire Police.

A spokesman for Ben Bailey Homes, the firm developing the site, said: “In relation to the incident in Huddersfield Road, which resulted in the tragic death of a contractor who was employed by PMC, Ben Bailey Homes Limited is currently working with the contractors Greenpiling and the relevant authorities to establish the facts.

“Our thoughts are with his family and friends.”

HSE is the independent regulator acting in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury in Britain.