He leaves behind a wife and five children.
He must have been holding the antenna and it came in contact with the service line to the house.
It reminds me of an incident in Ocean County, NJ almost 20 years ago.
A man had saved up and purchased an aluminum masted boat. There was some assembly required. He and his son were going down the street to the boat launch pushing the boat on a carrier, and the whole neighborhood came out, excited for this man to realize his dream.
The mast touched a power line and the man and his son were killed instantly.
Be careful out there Freepers—a moment of carelessness is not overlooked by electricity or gravity.
Usually overhead service to a house has both hots insulated and they are wrapped around a bare ground for physical support and to complete the circuit for the center tap to the pole pig. It would take a serious impact, more than a casual brush, to break this cable or even strip the insulation.
If he touched a 5 kV local feed thinking it was telephone wires, that would be another story.
There was a former baseball player named Bo Diaz who died when he tried to hook up a satellite dish on the roof of his house; the dish crushed his neck.
I’ve been involved to one degree or another with everything from CB antennas to Ham to TV antennas. Even among those who know the dangers, you still hear about someone once in a while who electrocutes himself when an antenna starts to fall and they fail to let go.
RIP.