WAYNE R. FUCHS, born on May 8, 1944, was a Northwest Area Lineman with six and a half years of service at Commonwealth Edison and four years of experience, who received a mortal shock from an electrical contact on Friday April 26, 1974. He was working north of Jamison Lane and west of Shepard Road in Hoffman Estates. The twenty-nine-year-old Fuchs attempted to place a fuse holder into an energized 7200-volt cutout with his left hand while holding the neutral wire with his right hand, creating a fatal circuit across his body.
Survived by his parents and siblings, the U.S. Army veteran was buried at Saint John the Baptist Cemetery in Johnsburg, Illinois.
Survived by his parents and siblings, the U.S. Army veteran was buried at Saint John the Baptist Cemetery in Johnsburg, Illinois.
WAYNE R. FUCHS, born on May 8, 1944, was a Northwest Area Lineman with six and a half years of service at Commonwealth Edison and four years of experience, who received a mortal shock from an electrical contact on Friday April 26, 1974. He was working north of Jamison Lane and west of Shepard Road in Hoffman Estates. The twenty-nine-year-old Fuchs attempted to place a fuse holder into an energized 7200-volt cutout with his left hand while holding the neutral wire with his right hand, creating a fatal circuit across his body.
Survived by his parents and siblings, the U.S. Army veteran was buried at Saint John the Baptist Cemetery in Johnsburg, Illinois.
Survived by his parents and siblings, the U.S. Army veteran was buried at Saint John the Baptist Cemetery in Johnsburg, Illinois.
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