A B.C. man is dead after a Toyota 4x4 rolled over on a mining road near Haines Junction late last Wednesday night.

The 33-year-old’s name is being withheld until family members have been notified, the Yukon coroner’s office said Monday afternoon.

He was driving his personal blue Ford Club Wagon XLT van up a hill near Gladstone Creek, where he worked for a local mining company. The two vehicles were leaving the camp and were headed to Haines Junction.

He was following a male co-worker, also from B.C., in a Toyota 4x4 when the Ford became stuck.

Kirsten Macdonald, the territory’s chief coroner, said when the Ford had trouble bearing down, the two men attached a tow rope to the Toyota to pull the vehicle up the hill.

“The man who died wasn’t in either of the (vehicles),” said Macdonald. “He had gotten out to stay safe.”

He was hit when the Toyota rolled, causing serious injury.

The driver of the Toyota called the mining camp, which summoned a helicopter to take the man to a nursing station at Haines Junction.

He was pronounced dead early last Thursday morning.

No autopsy will be ordered.

A toxicology report is pending, though there’s no suspicion that alcohol or any other substances were a factor.

The Yukon Coroner’s Service is continuing the investigation with help from the RCMP, Yukon Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board, and Occupational Health and Safety officials. 

“Our sincere condolences go out to the family of this young man, as well as others who are mourning his loss,” the coroner’s office said in a statement.