Find Your Daily Voice
48°
Pottsville Sanitation Worker Killed By Falling Sign: Coroner
A sanitation worker in Schuylkill County died after being struck by a falling street sign, officials say.
Kerry A. Spiess, 36, of Pottsville, was working on a sanitation truck in the 100 block of North Progress Avenue early in the morning on Sept. 6 when his truck backed into a standing sign pole, said the Lehigh County Coroner's Office in a release.
Spiess stepped down off the back of the truck onto the sidewalk, when the sign fell and hit him on the head, officials added.
He died at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest on Friday, Dec. 2, just before 2 p.m., the Coroner's …
