PRATT, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have identified a south-central Kansas man who was killed after coming into contact with a 7,200-volt power line.
The Pratt County sheriff’s office said Wednesday that 58-year-old Eric Notter, of Pratt, was electrocuted while using a bucket truck near the power line. He was pronounced dead Tuesday at Pratt Regional Medical Center.
It was the second job-related electrocution in Kansas two days. On Monday, a concrete company employee was killed was killed when a boom on a truck touched an overhead power line in Arkansas City.