BERN TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The Berks County Coroner’s Office is investigating an accidental death that happened Tuesday night in Bern Township.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At 5:09 p.m., the Berks County 911 Center received a call reporting a fall victim at the back of a home in the 1000 block of Mahlon Drive, the coroner’s office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The coroner says the investigation determined that the homeowner was using a pole saw while standing on a ladder when a tree limb fell and hit him, causing both the victim and the ladder to fall to the ground.<\/p>\n
The victim has been identified as 80-year-old Donald Paul Glass, according to coroner Matthew J. Stitzel.<\/p>\n
Glass was pronounced dead at the scene by the Berk’s County Coroner’s Office at 5:53 p.m., according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The coroner says the cause of death has been determined to be blunt force trauma and traumatic asphyxiation. The manner of death has been ruled accidental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERN TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The Berks County Coroner’s Office is investigating an accidental death that happened Tuesday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14018,71548,100682,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-233069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county-coroner","tag-coroners","tag-limb","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\/233069","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=233069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}