PORT ANGELES — The state Department of Labor and Industries is investigating the fatal fall of a cell phone technician atop the Elks Naval Lodge building.
Jeremy Combs, 33, of Bonney Lake was working late Friday on a cell phone tower atop the five-story building with two co-workers, said Port Angeles Sgt. Jack Lowell on Tuesday.
Combs fell about 40 feet to the roof, Lowell said.
Port Angeles police received the emergency call at 12:01 a.m. Friday, and Combs was still alive when paramedics and police officers arrived, Lowell said.
He was pronounced dead at Olympic Medical Center at 1:43 a.m., he said.
Lowell said Combs was employed by Emerald Wireless in Buckley.
According to an online obituary posted by Yahn & Son Funeral Home in Auburn, Combs was working as a foreman of a cellular tower construction crew, and had been working in that profession since 1997.
He is survived by his wife and two children.
