A Michigan man was electrocuted Friday when working on a fiber optic cable in Perrysburg Township, authorities said.
Nathan Norris, 19, of Ingham County’s Delhi Charter Township, was pronounced dead at 1:43 p.m. at Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center, Lucas County Coroner Dr. James Patrick said.
Dr. Patrick said Mr. Norris, an electrician for Ac-Dc Electrical Contractors, was up in a bucket, stringing the cable, when he came into contact with a live electric wire and was knocked off the bucket and into a tree.
Co-workers then used another bucket truck to retrieve him and summoned a medical emergency crew, which took him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later, Dr. Patrick said.
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LANSING, MI - A Delhi Township man was pronounced dead Friday at a Toledo hospital after he was electrocuted by a live wire, the Lucas County Coroner's Office confirmed Saturday.
The office identified the man as Nathan Norris, a 19-year-old construction worker who specialized in installing fiber optic cables. He was pronounced dead at Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo.
An autopsy is expected to be conducted Monday by the coroner's office, said Cathy Stooksbury, a coroner's office investigator.
Stooksbury said a report from the hospital confirmed that Norris got tangled up in cables, including one that was live, fell out of a bucket truck and landed in a tree.
Stooksbury said the hospital's report confirms Norris was pronounced dead about 15 minutes after he was taken from Perrysburg, Ohio, to the Toledo hospital.
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Michigan man electrocuted while working job in Ohio
September 16, 2017 3:44 PM
LANSING, Mich.
An electrician from the Lansing-area was electrocuted while working a job in Ohio.
The Lansing State Journal reports 19-year-old Nathan Norris was pronounced dead Friday at Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo.
Norris was an electrician for a company called AC-DC Electrical Contractors. He lived in Delhi Township, outside Lansing.
Officials say Norris was stringing up cable when he touched a live wire that knocked him out of a bucket truck and into a tree.