Citizen Staff Writer
DAVID L. TEIBEL
dteibel@tucsoncitizen.com
The man electrocuted at a midtown construction site has been identified as a Tucson construction company supervisor.
He was Ernie Russell, 61, a senior electrical supervisor at The Ashton Co. Inc., said Dick Horton, an Ashton spokesman.
Horton said Russell, a company employee for more than 10 years, apparently was installing a metal light pole at a construction project on the Dodge Boulevard bridge over the Rillito.
He was electrocuted about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday when the pole touched overhead power lines, Horton said.
Ashton and the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health are investigating the death.
Electrocuted worker identified