A Kutztown man died Wednesday in Reading Hospital shortly after falling from a scaffold at a worksite in Shillington, Berks County Coroner Matthew J. Stitzel said.<\/p>\n
Emergency crews were dispatched at 9:47 a.m. to 31 Catherine St., where the 47\u2011year\u2011old man had fallen from scaffolding. Initial reports indicated he fell from the second\u2011story level of a large brick building that has recently housed several businesses, including a precision machining shop, a karate academy and a group fitness center.<\/p>\n
The victim was taken by ambulance to Reading Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:11 a.m. by a physician, Stitzel said.<\/p>\n
The coroner\u2019s office withheld the man\u2019s name.<\/p>\n
An autopsy is scheduled for this morning at Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Cedar Crest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kutztown man died Wednesday in Reading Hospital shortly after falling from a scaffold at a worksite in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,1114,706],"class_list":["post-210489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-shillington","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210489","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=210489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}