LADWP Employee Electrocuted In Underground Wilmington Vault

By CBSLA Staff, CBS Los Angeles:

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A Los Angeles Department of Water and Power employee was electrocuted Thursday morning while working in an underground vault in Wilmington.

The electrocution occurred at around 11 a.m. while he was part of a crew that was performing “cable splicing” work, the agency said. The victim came into contact with an energized circuit.

He coworkers pulled him out of the vault and gave him CPR. He was rushed by ambulance to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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