Posted at 11:11 a.m., Friday, October 7, 2005
Big Island man electrocuted
Advertiser Staff
HILO, Hawai'i — A 43-year-old Pohoiki man was electrocuted yesterday while trimming trees in a Lower Puna subdivision.Thomas Roth was working with a crew on Ma'i'i'i Street in Hawaiian Shores shortly before 1:56 p.m. when the accident occurred, police said. Roth apparently was touching a steel cable connected to a truck when a boom on the truck came into contact with overhead power lines, police said.
A fire department rescue crew took Roth to Hilo Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 3:02 p.m.
