A 31-year-old Reading man was killed Wednesday morning in a workplace accident involving a bucket truck and an electrical power line in Exeter Township, according to the Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Emergency crews were dispatched at 10:54 a.m. to the rear of a private residence in the 4000 block of Grant Street after receiving a report of a worker in a bucket truck who had come into contact with a power line.<\/p>\n
According to Berks County Coroner Matthew J. Stitzel, the victim was employed by a local tree service company and had been trimming a hedgerow when the equipment he was operating reportedly contacted an electrical power line.<\/p>\n
Emergency responders arrived and began investigating the incident. The Coroner\u2019s Office was notified and responded to the scene at 11:33 a.m.<\/p>\n
The man was pronounced dead at the scene. His identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was notified and was sending an investigator from Harrisburg to assist with the workplace safety investigation.<\/p>\n
The Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office was assisted at the scene by the Exeter Township Police Department, Exeter Fire Company, Penn State Health EMS, and Met-Ed.<\/p>\n
An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday at Reading Hospital. The cause and manner of death remain under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 31-year-old Reading man was killed Wednesday morning in a workplace accident involving a bucket truck and an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-215815","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\/215815","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=215815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}