A 41-year-old man died yesterday after being thrown from the basket of a scissors lift that had been toppled at a construction site in the Poland Mine Site in Dunkard Township, Greene County.
Richard Reed Custer of Eighty Four was taken from the scene to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The accident occurred around 11:20 a.m. when Mr. Custer, a journeyman electrician employed by TP Electric, was working for Lincoln Contracting at a water pumping/filtration plant construction site. He was on a scissors lift working overhead to install brackets when a forklift picking up wooden forms hit the scissors lift, causing it to topple on its side, throwing Mr. Custer from the basket.
An autopsy is scheduled today. State police are investigating.
