Police identify State Center Electrical Utilities employee who died from electrocution
Updated: 6:32 PM CDT Aug 8, 2023
Police identify State Center Electrical Utilities employee who died from electrocution
Updated: 6:32 PM CDT Aug 8, 2023
TWO YEARS BEHIND BARS. A MAN WHO WAS ELECTROCUTED IN STATE CENTER THIS MORNING HAS NOW BEEN IDENTIFIED. JACOB WEUVE OF STATE CENTER WAS PERFORMING WORK FOR THE CITY’S ELECTRICAL UTILITY EARLY THIS MORNING. POLICE TELL KCCI THEY COULD NOT SAY WHAT WORK WAS BEING DONE OR WHERE IT WAS HAPPENING
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Police identify State Center Electrical Utilities employee who died from electrocution
Updated: 6:32 PM CDT Aug 8, 2023
A State Center Electrical Utilities employee died Tuesday morning after being electrocuted.According to a release from the State Center Police Department, utilities personnel were working in State Center when Jacob Weuve, of State Center, suffered an electric shock.Police say Weuve had worked for State Center Electrical Utilities for 13 years.Police did not release the specific location of the electrocution nor did they specify the work being done at that time.OSHA is investigating.
STATE CENTER, Iowa —
A State Center Electrical Utilities employee died Tuesday morning after being electrocuted.
According to a release from the State Center Police Department, utilities personnel were working in State Center when Jacob Weuve, of State Center, suffered an electric shock.
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Police say Weuve had worked for State Center Electrical Utilities for 13 years.
Police did not release the specific location of the electrocution nor did they specify the work being done at that time.
OSHA is investigating.