A PECO worker died after he was electrocuted while responding to a power outage Wednesday in Rosemont, Pennsylvania.
Walter Carter was in an elevated bucked along Berwood Lane near Boxwood Road when he was electrocuted while working on a power line around 5 a.m., Radnor Township police said.
A police officer who responded to scene found a worker on the roadway who said his co-worker was inside the raised bucket, police Lt. Andy Block said.
Fire crews assisted in lowering the bucket and found the 62-year-old line worker unresponsive inside, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the Delaware County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Police called the incident a "tragic accident."
Carter worked for PECO for 31 years. He leaves behind a wife and two daughters, White said, while asking for people in the county to keep Carter in their prayers Thursday.
