POLICE said tonight the man electrocuted at a disused quarry was 17.
Initial information was that the victim - who died after being electrocuted while using a cherry-picker at a former quarry in Brize Norton - was 29.
However a police spokesman said tonight the victim, who has not been identified, was 17.
She added police were called to the quarry off Shilton Lane at 3.50pm today.
She said: "He was taken by air ambulance to the John Radcliffe Hospital, where he was declared dead."
The spokesman confirmed the Health and Safety Executive was investigating.
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