{"id":186563,"date":"2026-05-07T21:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186563\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:27:12","slug":"florida-man-dies-on-job-at-pennsylvania-imax-theater-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186563\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man dies on job at Pennsylvania IMAX theater, official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 71-year-old Florida man died after falling on the job at a movie theater in Reading, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, according to the Berks County Coroner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Robert R. Franklin of Celebration, Florida, was working as an independent contractor at the IMAX theater in Reading when he fell about 50 feet through a drop ceiling, the coroner&#8217;s office said. He was pronounced dead at 11:57 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) responded to the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy was scheduled for Thursday to determine the cause of Franklin&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 71-year-old Florida man died after falling on the job at a movie theater in Reading, Pennsylvania, on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[349,5918,82861,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-186563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-berks-county","tag-florida","tag-imax","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}