Loyall, KY
A local businessman died Wednesday while working.
According to a release from Harlan County Coroner Philip Bianchi, he is conducting a death investigating concerning an electrocution that occurred on Good Neighbor Road in Loyall.
The death occurred when a tree trimmer was gaining access to tree limbs and the boom of his bucket truck contacted a high voltage power line, Bianchi stated. Brian Todd Collins, 46, owner of Collins Tree Service, was pronounced dead at the scene by Bianchi.
Loyall Police Chief Mike Lunsford is in charge of the investigation. Others assisting at the scene were members of the Harlan and Loyall Fire Departments, LifeCare Ambulance, Harlan County Sheriff’s Office and officials with Kentucky Utilities
Brian Todd "Briar" Collins
THREE POINT, KY — Brian Todd "Briar" Collins 46, of Three Point, KY went home (against his will; life sucks sometimes) to be with the Lord Wednesday, August 30, 2017. He was the owner & operator of Collins Tree Service and had been a coal miner for 25 years. He had accepted the Lord as his Savior in the year of 2004. Todd was a member of the Cawood Pentecostal Holiness Church where he had won many souls for the Lord by sharing his testimony of where the Lord had brought him. He went weekly to minister at the Harlan County Detention Center.
His grandparents, Tyler & Birdie Collins and John T. Ramsey and his father-in-law, Roger Posey precede him in death.