{"id":210278,"date":"2026-06-04T05:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210278\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:54:07","slug":"berks-coroner-man-dies-after-falling-from-scaffolding-in-shillington-southern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210278\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks coroner: Man dies after falling from scaffolding in Shillington | Southern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHILLINGTON BORO., Pa. \u2013 A workplace accident in Shillington on Wednesday turned fatal, the Berks County coroner says.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency dispatchers say they received a call Wednesday at 9:47 a.m. for a man who fell from scaffolding while working at a job site in the borough. The individual was taken to Reading Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s office says the man has been identified as a 47-year-old resident of Kutztown Borough.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHILLINGTON BORO., Pa. \u2013 A workplace accident in Shillington on Wednesday turned fatal, the Berks County coroner says.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[81126,6652,128,130,129,87011,1114,53642],"class_list":["post-210278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-fatal-fall","tag-kutztown","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-scaffolding","tag-shillington","tag-workplace-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210278","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=210278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}