31.07.2018

Fatal scissor lift incident

An electrician has died after falling from a scissor lift at a plant in Toldeo, Ohio.

Michael Meeks, 40, a private electrical contractor working for Vision Lighting, was working on overhead lighting at the Aramark Uniform Service plant in the town, during the early hours of Thursday morning when he appears to have fallen over the guardrails.

His body was discovered by Aramark employees around 5:30 am which they say could have been up to an hour after he fell. The emergency services are looking at the possibility that he might have received an electric shock or been standing on the guardrails and slipped. The only official statement issued by the police stated that “Meeks was working on a scissor lift without a harness.”