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Sunday, 07 May 2006

A Lebanon man died Friday when he fell nearly 90 feet from a cell phone tower he was working on about 70 miles east of Pittsburgh, an official said yesterday. Michael R. Sellers, 25, was about halfway up the 150-foot tower in Ebenesburg around 10 a.m. Friday when he fell and landed on the tower's concrete platform, Cambria County Coroner Dennis Kwiatkowski said. Sellers, an employee of Sting Communications of Lebanon, was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:26 a.m., Kwiatkowski said. An autopsy performed Friday showed that he died of massive internal injuries, the coroner said. Kwiatkowski said neither drugs nor alcohol were a factor in the fall. The U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration will begin an investigation tomorrow, said Ed Selker of OSHA's Pittsburgh office. Sellers and another worker were trying to install an antenna on the cell phone tower on the campus of Bishop Carroll High School. Sellers wore a harness, but was not attached to the tower, the coroner said. Kwiatkowski said Sellers was certified to climb the tower. "These guys go through a certification to climb these towers," he said. "It's not like they hire some guy off the street to climb the towers." Kwiatkowski said the second worker on the ground was feeding up safety rope before Sellers fell. "The initial climb is always the most dangerous until they get all the safety lines in place," he said. Sellers was unable to hook his harness onto the tower while he was climbing, Kwiatkowski said. "There's no way to climb if you're hooking it up at the same time," he said. "There's no safety net until you get [to the top]." Kwiatkowski said in the last five years he investigated at least two other workers who fell to their deaths from a cell phone tower. Sellers body was returned to Lebanon on Friday evening, the coroner said.

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