UPDATED: Utility worker electrocuted in Paramount


PARAMOUNT >> A utility worker was electrocuted while working on power lines in Paramount Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.
The fatal mishap was reported about 5:22 p.m. along California Avenue at Jefferson Street, Los Angeles County Fire Department Dispatch Supervisor Cheryl Sims said.
Paramedics pronounced the Southern California Edison worker dead at the scene, she said. A description was not available.
The worker was responding to a service call when the incident occurred, Sims said.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials deferred comment to the utility.
SCE spokewoman Susan Cox said the investigation remained in its early stages.
“We can confirm a Southern California Edison employee fatality,” she said.
Details remained unclear Wednesday evening, she said.
“We’re aware of the incident, but we don’t know what happened,” Cox said. “An investigatin is under way.”
A sheriff’s homicide detective was summoned to the scene to investigate, however there were no initial signs of foul play, Deputy Crystal Hernandez of the sheriff’s Information Bureau said.
The California Department of Industrial Relations Division of Occupational Safety and Health is also investigation, she said.
No further details were available.

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