No Sign of Electrocution on Studio City Utility Worker Who Died on Pole

The coroner's office today said there was no sign of trauma on the body of a 61-year-old telecommunications company worker who was found dangling from a utility pole in the rear of a home in Valley Glen.

An autopsy on the body of Robert Alfred Hernandez on Sunday found no signs of electrocution or other types of trauma, coroner's Capt. John Kades said this afternoon.

The cause of the Studio City resident's Friday death has been deferred, pending the results of lab and toxicology tests, Kades said, but authorities suspect he suffered some type of medical emergency as he was working.

Emergency personnel were dispatched at 2:50 p.m. Friday to 6044 N. Ventura Canyon Ave., according to Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

The AT&T employee was unconscious and dangling upside down when rescuers arrived, according to Stewart. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

City News Service