{"id":216445,"date":"2026-06-11T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/216445\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:38:10","slug":"man-killed-on-job-in-berks-county-after-being-electrocuted-while-trimming-a-hedge-coroner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/216445\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed on job in Berks County after being electrocuted while trimming a hedge: coroner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Reading man was killed on the job after accidentally coming into contact with an electrical power line Wednesday morning in Berks County, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/berkscountycoroner\/posts\/pfbid0ZkHrnhqk86LG1hJDab6ng9LFiys1fzkiFzzgwyA71UwmRUuksbbTRNoz1J34Jcbml?__cft__[0]=AZZBH8rfLXAy8_7U_HW-WK2OVfD8UZRfMX_hCaxXjQqyUQZFmU5P-CxH_AbhusHilUsob_-az91M3lNyu8qHe-QJtlMuUI9NPN7zCcOt8sUwjLcg72_x7r_pWePa97pbLLeMrgO5tBXUbe0x_0ebWugmFunrKP0VgcF8naI1K6RUsw&amp;__tn__=%2CO*F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">coroner&#8217;s office<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>At 10:54 a.m., Berks County dispatchers were called to the 4000 block of Grant Street in Exeter Township regarding an incident involving a man and a bucket truck.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators learned that a 31-year-old Reading man who worked for a local tree service company was trimming a hedge when a power line electrocuted him.<\/p>\n<p>The Berks County Coroner&#8217;s Office declared him dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A release from the coroner&#8217;s office confirmed that OSHA had been notified regarding the accident and was sending a Harrisburg investigator to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday at Reading Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Reading man was killed on the job after accidentally coming into contact with an electrical power line&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-216445","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\/216445","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=216445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}