A 73-year-old man died in hospital after the cherry picker he was using hit power lines, an inquest hearing has heard.
Steven Wilson was cutting down trees in his garden when the incident happened on September 19.
He received CPR from the emergency services and was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. But he later died in hospital.
Caroline Jones, an area coroner for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, opened an inquest into the death at Lawrence Court in Huntingdon.
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At the brief hearing on Thursday (October 10), she said: “The [provisional] cause of death given by the hospital was that of cardiac arrest and 70 per cent burns and 1B due to 11kv electrocution.
“The matter has been listed for a pre-inquest review hearing on January 20 of next year before my fellow coroner Ms Gray and therefore I adjourn this matter until that date and extend my condolences to the family of Steven Wilson.”
Details of where the incident happened were not shared during the hearing.
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