A 47-year-old Kutztown Borough resident died Wednesday after a workplace accident in Shillington Borough, according to the Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Berks County Coroner Matthew J. Stitzel said the Coroner\u2019s Office was called to Reading Hospital to investigate the fatal incident, which occurred on June 3.<\/p>\n
According to officials, the Berks County 911 Center received a report at 9:47 a.m. that a male worker had fallen from scaffolding at a job site in Shillington Borough. Emergency responders arrived at the scene and transported the victim by ambulance to Reading Hospital.<\/p>\n
The man was later pronounced deceased at the hospital at 11:11 a.m.<\/p>\n
An autopsy was scheduled for Thursday, June 4, at Cedar Crest Hospital in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n
The incident remains under investigation by the Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
The Coroner\u2019s Office said it was assisted by the Shillington Fire Company, Shillington Police Department, Cumru Township Fire Company, TowerDirect EMS, and Reading Ambulance.<\/p>\n
Further information will be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 47-year-old Kutztown Borough resident died Wednesday after a workplace accident in Shillington Borough, according to the Berks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-210679","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\/210679","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=210679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}