STAFF REPORTS
A Department of Public Works employee from the Village of Medina died Wednesday morning after falling from the bucket truck he was working in.
“Something caused the bucket to turn upside down and he fell off the bucket,” Medina Police Chief Jose Avila said. “We are trying to determine what took place.”
Police officers and the Medina Fire Department responded at approximately 10:45 a.m. to the emergency call at Boxwood Cemetery on North Gravel Road where the truck was parked with its bucket still extended in the air among the tree branches the employee had been trimming when he fell.
A preliminary investigation indicated that the employee fell about 25 feet, according to a press release issued Wednesday afternoon by Avila and the Medina Police Department.
“He fell onto the tree,” Avila said. “His impact was with the tree, not with the ground.”
Several fire and rescue workers responded to the call, but the employee was pronounced dead at the scene by Coroner Charles Smith.
According to Avila, the police department, in conjunction with the Department of Labor, will be investigating the incident to determine what happened.
The man’s name is being withheld pending the notification of family members, Avila said.
