EXETER TWP., Pa. – Authorities in Berks County are investigating a deadly workplace accident that happened on Wednesday morning.
Police in Exeter Township and the Berks County Coroner responded to a report that came in at 10:54 a.m. of a male worker in a bucket truck in the rear of a private residence in the 4000 block of Grant Street in Exeter Township.
The victim, a 31-year-old Reading man employed by a local tree service company, had reportedly been trimming a hedgerow when the equipment he was operating came into contact with an electrical power line, according to coroner Matthew Stitzel…