Man accidentally electrocuted while trimming trees
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| Gomez Diaz. |
A 41-year-old man is dead after he was electrocuted while
trimming trees yesterday evening in the 3400 block of Surrey Lane in the HolmesRun Acres neighborhood.
Fairfax County police and fire department officers responded
to a report at around 8:15 p.m. that a man might have been electrocuted while working
near a power line.
to a report at around 8:15 p.m. that a man might have been electrocuted while working
near a power line.
Emergency personnel had to wait for
Dominion Power to arrive and deactivate the live power line. Jacinto Gómez Diaz, of Culpeper,
was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:37 p.m. The Office of the Chief Medical
Examiner is conducting an autopsy to confirm the cause of death.
Dominion Power to arrive and deactivate the live power line. Jacinto Gómez Diaz, of Culpeper,
was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:37 p.m. The Office of the Chief Medical
Examiner is conducting an autopsy to confirm the cause of death.
Gómez Diaz is from the village La Canyon Chiquita Colotenango in Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
That is awful, poor guy probably did not know what him. It may have been mother nature's way of saying leave the trees alone, always trim from the bottom.
The tree company was DONNIE JENKINS JR TREE SERVICE & LANDSCAPING.
We don't know the whole story, and may never understand the circumstances of how Jacinto Gomez Diaz was hired (picked up for duty) and put in that tree on Tuesday afternoon.
But what we do know:
Reputable tree companies do not hire people from 7-11, show up in the late afternoon, work above the electric high-wire, drop limbs and watch them burn while continuing work at the urging of neighbors to stop, and work into the darkness to get the job done. This puts everyone in jeopardy.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/donnie-jenkins-tree-service-and-landscaping-culpeper
https://www.bbb.org/us/va/culpeper/profile/tree-service/donnie-jenkins-jr-tree-service-landscaping-0603-63398205
DO NOT HIRE people like this!!!!! For their sake, as well as yours.
It's so sad to see untrained people from 7-11 hired like this. The practice should be outlawed. And to boot, I'd guess that these people are all paid under the table in cash….and it's not reported to the IRS, so no taxes are paid on their income. I'd be interested to see if Mr. Diaz was a U.S. citizen.
Where is anyone getting this dude was an illegal hired from a 7-11?