At approximately 12:30 p.m. on Friday, October 10, the Marion, Iowa, Fire Department was dispatched to a reported tower accident at 3602 N. 10th Street in Marion, where an individual had fallen from a communications tower and was found unconscious and bleeding.
Wireless Estimator was able to identify today that the deceased was tower tech Dane Eugene Picknell, age 38, of Cambridge, MN
According to the department’s statement, the first-arriving crew located Picknell and determined that CPR had already been initiated by personnel on site. Despite continued resuscitation efforts by the Marion Fire Department and Area Ambulance Service, those efforts were unsuccessful, and the individual was pronounced deceased at the scene.
Emergency responders on scene included the Marion Police Department, Area Ambulance Service, LifeGuard Air Ambulance, and representatives from the State Medical Examiner’s Office…