MAIDENCREEK TWP., Pa. – A 69-year-old man from Albany Township is dead after a lawn mower accident, according to the Berks County coroner.<\/p>\n
The coroner identified the man as Jeffrey Brobst.<\/p>\n
Officials say Brobst was operating a lawn mower, cutting the grass at a property in Maidencreek Township on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. when the mower went over a retaining wall.<\/p>\n
Brobst was transported to Reading Hospital and was pronounced dead at 2:46 p.m., the coroner says.<\/p>\n
The cause of the death has been determined as head injuries, and the manner was ruled as accidental, according to the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MAIDENCREEK TWP., Pa. – A 69-year-old man from Albany Township is dead after a lawn mower accident, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1874,349,17147,111,107439,72446,21027,128,130,129,2791,14023],"class_list":["post-251322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-accident","tag-berks-county","tag-coroner","tag-death","tag-head-trauma","tag-lawn-mower","tag-maidencreek-township","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-hospital","tag-retaining-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251322","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=251322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251322\/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=251322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}