A maintenance task went terribly wrong in Jangaon district on Wednesday. An electricity department lineman died from electrocution while fixing a power line. This happened in Cheetakodur village, which's in the Jangaon mandal.
The person who died is Radhamalla Karunakar Reddy. He worked as a lineman for the state power distribution company. People in the area said the accident happened while Karunakar Reddy was doing his job to get the electricity on in the area.
Details of the Incident
The village of Cheetakodur had a power outage that day. Karunakar Reddy went to an electricity transformer to find out what was wrong and fix it.
He climbed an electricity pole to look at the lines. While he was looking he touched a wire by mistake and got a bad electric shock. The shock was so strong that he lost his balance and fell from the top of the pole.
The electric shock and the fall were too much for Karunakar Reddy. He got badly hurt and died right there.
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Official Investigation and Community Response
The death of the power utility worker was a shock to the people of Cheetakodur and the areas around it. The whole village is very sad. When the police heard about the accident they went to the site to see what happened.
The police took Karunakar Reddys body to the government hospital to do an autopsy. They started an investigation to find out exactly what happened and what went wrong.
The people in charge of the electricity department local leaders and the people who live in the village are all very sad, about Karunakar Reddys death. They remember him as a worker who died while helping the public. The electricity department and the villagers will miss Karunakar Reddy because he was a worker who lost his life while doing his job to get the electricity back on for the people of Cheetakodur village.