FORT WORTH, Texas — A man died from being electrocuted while working on a contracting job in Fort Worth on Tuesday, according to the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff deputies were called at about 1 p.m. to the 12000 block of Camp Bowie West Boulevard. They were dispatched to help paramedics at the scene.
When they arrived, they learned that a self-employed contractor got shocked when the metal scissor lift he was using touched a power line. Deputies said he was using the metal lift to measure a sign.
The victim was sent to a local hospital, then to the burn unit at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. He was later pronounced deceased.
The Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office identified the man as 54-year-old Michael Wayne Riley.
No other information was available.
The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office will be investigating the incident. The Dallas County Medical Examiner will officially determine his cause of death.
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