{"id":917907,"date":"2022-01-20T08:20:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T08:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/20\/jb-marks-municipal-worker-electrocuted-while-working-on-electrical-line\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T08:20:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T08:20:03","slug":"jb-marks-municipal-worker-electrocuted-while-working-on-electrical-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/jb-marks-municipal-worker-electrocuted-while-working-on-electrical-line\/","title":{"rendered":"JB Marks municipal worker electrocuted while working on electrical line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/498e3fb3-eaaa-5a36-81b6-624bd8026e34&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x90&#038;resize=652x367.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>CAPE TOWN &#8211; A Potchefstroom municipal worker has died after he was electrocuted on the job while attending to a call-out in Extension 11 in Ikageng.<\/p>\n<p>Reni Seroalo was an employee in the JB Marks Local Municipality\u2019s electricity section within its technical services department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>According to the municipality, Seroalo and his team members were at work fixing an electricity supply line when he was electrocuted and died.<\/p>\n<p>It said the incident occurred on Wednesday around midday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDetails of how the accident happened are still being investigated and will be released at a later stage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cJB Marks Local Municipality expresses its deep and heartfelt condolences to Mr. Seroalo\u2019s family, relatives and friends. We will await the family\u2019s decision relating to the burial and will support and work closely with them,\u201d the municipality said.<\/p>\n<p>ER24\u2019s spokesperson, Russel Meiring said medical personnel declared Seroalo dead at the scene along the dirt road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cER24 and the Provincial Fire Services arrived at 13h25 to find an electrical box on a pole well alight. A man was found lying motionless beneath the pole.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe Provincial Fire Services had to extinguish the fire before paramedics could assess the patient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn closer inspection, medics found that the man had already succumbed to his numerous injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing could be done for him, and he was declared dead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIt is understood that the man had been working on the electrical box when he was electrocuted,\u201d Meiring said.<\/p>\n<p>[email&nbsp;protected]<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-b651c4a76419829c3fa1bc6cb4611ed1\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN &#8211; A Potchefstroom municipal worker has died after he was electrocuted on the job while attending to a call-out in Extension 11 in Ikageng. Reni Seroalo was an employee in the JB Marks Local Municipality\u2019s electricity section within its technical services department. According to the municipality, Seroalo and his team members were at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}