A Filipino crewman has died in an accident on a cargoship at Drammen in Norway.

TV2 said the seafarer, in his late 30s, was working alone with a wheel load on the unnamed vessel on Monday.

He was taken unconscious to hospital, but later died there.

"We still do not know what has happened, but the man worked alone in a cargo area on a ship that loaded gravel," said police operations manager Marianne Morch.