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Utility Worker Dies After a Fall Working on Power Lines

HAZARD, Neb. (AP) — A utility worker has died after being injured in a fall while working on a power line northeast of Hazard in central Nebraska.

Sherman County Attorney Mark Eurek said Tuesday that Kurt Keaschall died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney.

Keaschall, of Pleasanton, was taken to the hospital on June 6. Dawson Public Power District general manager Robert Heinz reported last week that Keaschall was working in a utility truck bucket when it broke away from its boom. Keaschall fell an estimated 25 feet.

The 46-year-old Keaschall had worked 26 years for the district.

The investigation is continuing. Eurek says there won’t be an autopsy.

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