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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- One man is dead, after a construction site  accident in south Louisville. 

Louisville Metro Police spokesman Dwight Mitchell said in a release that the man died on Cardinal Hill Road, when a retaining wall collapsed at a construction site. His name has not been released.

Jefferson County Fire was dispatched at 12:45 p.m. Wednesday to what was originally called a trench rescue in a neighborhood south of Iroquois Park near the intersection of Palatka Road and St. Andrews Church Road.

LMPD's Major Crimes Unit is investigating.  

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