Worker on Drilling Rig Is Electrocuted
Aman working on a drilling rig near Palmdale died from electrical shock after equipment he was operating struck a power line, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies said Thursday.
Scott Rounds, 24, of Oxnard, died at Palmdale Hospital Medical Center about 4 p.m. Wednesday. He had been taken there by a co-worker after a drilling rig he was operating struck and knocked down a power line in a field near Elizabeth Lake Road and Bouquet Canyon in Leona Valley, deputies said.
Rounds was working for Buena Engineering of Lancaster and was drilling soil test holes when the accident occurred about 3:30 p.m., deputies said.
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