Worker installing solar panels dies in fall from roof of Allen Township home
A 57-year-old roofing contractor died Tuesday evening in a fall outside a Northampton County home, state police said.
The man was attempting to place solar panels onto the roof of the property in the 200 block of Mill Race Road in Allen Township, Trooper Nathan Branosky, public information officer with Pennsylvania State Police’s Troop M, told lehighvalleylive.com.
The worker fell just before 5:15 p.m. and troopers responded minutes after, Branosky said. The man was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:05 p.m. by the Northampton County Coroner’s Office.
Northampton County Coroner Zachary Lysek has yet to identify the deceased. An autopsy is pending to reveal the man’s cause and manner of death.
The incident remains under investigation by Pennsylvania State Police in Bethlehem’s Criminal Investigation Unit and the Northampton County Coroner’s Office.
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