Monday, September 29, 1997
Colorado City man dies
SWEETWATER -- A 37-year-old Colorado City man died from accidental
electrocution sometime Saturday while working in southwestern
Nolan County.
Audie Dean Mitchell died at a site near County Road 133, where
the Cap Rock Electric Co. employee was trying to repair a downed
power line, said Nolan County Deputy Sheriff David McDonald.
Nolan County Judge Jack Ayrock pronounced Mitchell dead at
the scene before 1 a.m. Sunday. No witnesses were known to be
around where Mitchell had been working.
"We are not sure how much power was being conducted through
the line, but it typically carries 7,200 volts," said McDonald.
He said the site of the accident was in rugged ranch country.
The landowner found the body late Saturday night, a Nolan County
Sheriff's Department spokesman said. It was not known late Sunday
when the workman started work on the downed line, nor what severed
the line.
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