Lebanon man electrocuted in farming accident

LEBANON, Ore. (AP) – A handyman in Lebanon has died after being fatally electrocuted in a farming accident.
 
Linn County authorities said Tuesday that 58-year-old Robert Leeland Prock was standing a 40-foot irrigation pipe on its end to move it when the pipe touched an overhead electrical wire.
 
The 12,000-volt wire was suspended 22 feet above the ground.
 
Prock was knocked unconscious by the shock and was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later.
 
His 11-year-old son, who was helping him, was also shocked but survived with no serious injuries.
 
The investigation is continuing.