Last Friday, January 8, 2021, a Delmarva Power employee passed away while working in Elsmere.
When rescue crews arrived at the scene on South Dupont Road in Elsmere they found the 57-year-old worker unresponsive.
The worker, whose name was not released by the company, was in the lift bucket when crews arrived on scene.
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Despite efforts to save the worker he succumbed at the scene.
Just before 12:40 on Wednesday afternoon, the worker’s funeral procession was honored by a phalanx of bucket trucks and coworkers linedup along E Main Street.