{"id":210314,"date":"2026-06-04T06:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210314\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:58:42","slug":"worker-killed-after-falling-from-scaffolding-at-shillington-job-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210314\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker Killed After Falling From Scaffolding At Shillington Job Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The victim, a 47-year-old Kutztown Borough resident, was seriously injured when he fell from scaffolding while working at a site in Shillington Borough at 9:47 a.m. on Wednesday, June 3, according to Berks County Coroner Matthew J. Stitzel. <\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders arrived at the scene and transported the man by ambulance to Reading Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:11 a.m., the coroner said. <\/p>\n<p>An autopsy was scheduled for Thursday, June 4, at Cedar Crest Hospital in Lehigh County, according to the release. <\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation by the Berks County Coroner&#8217;s Office. <\/p>\n<p>The coroner&#8217;s office said it was assisted by the Shillington Fire Company, Shillington Police Department, Cumru Township Fire Company, TowerDirect EMS, and Reading Ambulance. <\/p>\n<p>Details about the victim&#8217;s life were not immediately available. His loved ones are invited to share information with Daily Voice by emailing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyvoice.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"0c667c6567637e6d4c686d6560757a63656f69226f6361\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e-click-here-follow-btn\" data-testid=\"bottom-paragraph\">\n            <a class=\"e-email-signup\" js-follow-button=\"\" data-testid=\"article-click-here-to-subscribe\">Click here<\/a><br \/>\n            to follow Daily Voice<\/p>\n<p>              Shillington<\/p>\n<p>            and receive free news updates.\n          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The victim, a 47-year-old Kutztown Borough resident, was seriously injured when he fell from scaffolding while working at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-210314","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\/210314","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=210314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}