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    Default del coop death

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    has anyone heard about a delaware coop lineman getting electrocuted last friday

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    Default Storm leads to death of worker

    Not Friday but Sunday and Philly Suburb-

    http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/ne...8-1501483.html

    A weekend storm that brought nearly 2 inches of rain and high-powered winds to the area has been blamed for at least one death.

    Timothy Edwards, a Metropolitan-Edison utility worker from Easton, was electrocuted Sunday night as he tried to repair downed power lines along Lehnenberg Road just west of Route 611 in Durham. At around 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Edwards was injured and airlifted to St. Luke's Hospital in Bethlehem, according to state police at the Dublin barracks. He was pronounced dead an hour later.

    Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim performed an autopsy Monday morning and issued a press release, stating: “The cause of death is attributed to electrocution. I ruled the manner of death (an) accident.”

    Edwards, 43, had been a line worker for Met-Ed for the past six years, and previously worked for General Public Utilities. GPU was acquired by First Energy, a Reading company, in November 2001, and owns Met-Ed.

    Scott Surgeoner, spokesman for First Energy, declined to reveal details of exactly what happened, except to say that he assumed Edwards was not alone and that he had been working with a Met-Ed crew.

    Surgeoner said an investigation is under way, but wasn't sure how long it would take to complete. He added that electrocution fatalities within the company are not common, and couldn't provide a date when the last one occurred.

    “It has been quite a number of years,” he said. “It is rare when a fatal injury occurs.”

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    Post Delaware Death

    BigJohn5638:
    There was a death at Delaware EC last friday the 7th. However the company has released no details, not even the man's name, pending the results of the autopsy and their investigation.
    All I have heard is he was a serviceman working an individual outage by himself as first responder. He fell or was thrown from the bucket and pronounced dead at the scene by the rescue squad.
    When any info is released I will post it.

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    Unhappy More Info

    I heard a little more info about the death. I believe the facts are right but was not involved in the investigation. The lineman's name was Ron Harmon, who was in his mid fifties with 20+ years at the Cooperative. He responded to a evening trouble call for blinking lights at one home roughly 11:00 pm. The only witness was the home owner. Homeowner said the man checked things in the meterbase with a volt meter and said there was a problem with the connectors on the pole. He went up in the bucket reached for the wire with both hands "then started jumping and twitching, then came out of the bucket and hit the ground". The homeowner immediately called 911 and they dispatched police and ambulance. The Delaware state police did the initial investigation because they thought the man may have had a medical condition that produced a seizure. Coroner ruled it an electrocution. Before you ask; the man's harness, rubber gloves and sleeves were all hanging in the bins of his truck. He was wearing leather gloves. The bucket was at a height that he could have only touched secondary. The company had not released the name for several days because the man had a large extended family scattered over multiple states and they didn't want the family finding out from the news media.

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    This is why you need two men on a truck. Company is trying to save money not lives. Yes secondary can kill we all know that. Who is going to help this guy no one there that was trained. Yes he made a mistake but company should have two men on a call period.

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