PARAMOUNT >> Authorities Thursday released the identity of a 26-year-old Southern California Edison worker who died in a mishap while working on a utility pole in Paramount Wednesday afternoon.
Jeffrey Jacob Moon of Los Angeles died in the 5:22 p.m. incident, initially reported by fire officials as an electrocution, at California Avenue and Jefferson Street, according to Ed Winter, assistant chief of operations at the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner.
Witnesses reported Moon was working up on a telephone pole when he fell, Winter said.
“The decedent lost his footing, slid down the pole an became entangled in the telecommunications lines below,” he said.
Coworkers freed Moon from the wires and brought him to the ground, officials said. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
Moon’s cause of death remained uncertain Thursday.
Though initially reported as an electrocution, and witnesses reported seeing the victim convulsing after his fall, there were “no obvious signs of electrical injury” on Moon’s body, Winter said.
An autopsy was pending.
The incident is being investigated by Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials, Southern California Edison and the California Department of Industrial Relations Division of Occupational Safety and Health.