A routine hedge-trimming job in Exeter Township ended in tragedy Wednesday morning when Erik Reyna-Wright, 31, of Reading, was killed after coming into contact with an overhead power line, according to officials.
The Berks County coroner said Reyna-Wright was pronounced dead at the scene and ruled his cause of death to be high-voltage electrocution, with the manner of death listed as accidental.
County dispatchers were called out at 10:54 a.m. to the 4000 block of Grant Street for reports of an incident involving a man and a bucket truck. Investigators later identified the worker as Reyna-Wright and said he had been trimming a hedge when he contacted the live line. The coroner’s release noted that OSHA had been notified and that an investigator from Harrisburg would be assigned to the case, with an autopsy scheduled for Thursday at Reading Hospital, as reported by Local21News…