A Florida man was killed Wednesday morning after falling approximately 50 feet inside the IMAX theater in downtown Reading, according to the Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Berks County Coroner Matthew J. Stitzel said the office was notified by the Berks County 911 Center at 11:36 a.m. of an individual who had fallen inside the theater at the Reading Movies 11 & IMAX complex at 30 N. 2nd Street in Reading.<\/p>\n
The victim was identified as 71-year-old Robert R. Franklin of Celebration, Florida. Franklin was pronounced deceased at 11:57 a.m.<\/p>\n
According to the coroner\u2019s office, Franklin was an independent contractor working on renovations at the theater. Officials said he was working above the ceiling when he fell through a drop ceiling and fell approximately 50 feet.<\/p>\n
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, commonly known as OSHA, was notified and responded to the scene to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n
An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday, May 7, at Reading Hospital. The examination will be performed by forensic pathologist Dr. Neil Hoffman.<\/p>\n
The Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office said it was assisted at the scene by the Reading Police Department and the Reading Fire Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida man was killed Wednesday morning after falling approximately 50 feet inside the IMAX theater in downtown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-187397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187397","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=187397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}