PORT ANGELES — Jeremy Combs was not wearing safety equipment when he fell 32 feet to his death while working on cell phone antennas atop the Elks Naval Lodge last week, the state Department of Labor and Industries said.
Combs, 33, was a foreman of a cellular tower construction crew with Emerald Wireless, based in Buckley.
He had worked on cell phone towers since 1997.
Combs, of Bonney Lake, was attaching cell phone antennas on top of the five-story Elks Naval Lodge building in downtown Port Angeles with two co-workers when he fell at about 11:58 p.m. Sept. 11, said Rick White, Labor and Industries compliance officer, Thursday.
That kind of work is typically done at night because other antennas have to be unhooked, which would disrupt service, he said.
