Police have identified the man who died after an incident at a salt mine in western Ontario over the weekend.

He was 36-year-old Darcy Clancy of Chepstow, east of Kincardine.

Provincial police were called to the Compass Minerals mine in Goderich Saturday morning.

An injured man was brought to the surface and immediately taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

A post-mortem examination was scheduled for Monday.

Compass' website describes the Goderich facility as the largest underground salt mine on Earth.