Friday, October 14, 2011

Contract Worker Electrocuted

  • {West Virginia}...Tony Swiger, 48, from Sissonville, a contract worker for Suddenlink Communications, was  fatally electrocuted just before 12:30 P.M. Friday while working in the 1700 block of Mile Fork Road near Big Chimney in Kanawha County. Swiger was working in a bucket on a utility truck when he touched a live wire. He was employed by Vision Telecommunications, which had been contracted to do work for Suddenlink.