Utility worker electrocuted in Port Orange
STAFF REPORT
PORT ORANGE — A utility worker replacing power poles was electrocuted this afternoon.
The unidentified worker may be from Brevard County, police said, and was injured while working on power lines after 4:30 p.m. at Dunlawton Avenue and City Center. He was pronounced dead at 5:11 p.m. at Halifax Health Medical Center of Port Orange, said Capt. Wayne Miller, spokesman.
The victim was working for East Coast Utilities of Melbourne, which is subcontracted by Florida Power & Light to replace wooden poles with ones made of concrete from Spruce Creek Road to Interstate 95, police said.