DEARING, Ga. — An utility worker died Friday in eastern Georgia after being pulled from a bucket truck while working with a cable line.
WRDW reports that McDuffie County Coroner Paul Johnson confirmed that the worker, identified as Andrew Francis, 48, of Tamarac, Florida, was working out of a utility bucket truck while running a cable line.
The coroner’s office told the news station that the cable line was stretched across the road when a passing vehicle became entangled with the cable line at about 3:45 p.m.
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The coroner’s office said Francis died from his injuries after being pulled out of the bucket truck.
He was pronounced dead at 4:25 p.m., WJBF reports.
The incident is being investigated by the Georgia State Patrol and the McDuffie County Coroner’s Office.
An autopsy has been scheduled with a crime lab in Atlanta.
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