Los Angeles power worker electrocuted in underground electrical vault
Man pronounced dead from electrocution
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AP) — A Los Angeles Department of Water and Power employee has been electrocuted while working in an underground electrical vault.
The DWP says the man was working with a cable splicing crew Thursday morning when he “contacted an energized circuit” in the Wilmington area.
Co-workers tried to revive him by performing CPR but the man was pronounced dead at a hospital.
His name wasn’t immediately released.
The accident is under investigation.
