Two people were badly injured and one of them later died after being electrocuted while working in a bucket truck in south Fort Worth, officials said.
A 21-year-old man died after being electrocuted during a freak accident at work, leaving his widowed mother without family or financial support.
If someone is electrocuted, they are accidentally killed or badly injured when they touch something connected to a source of electricity.
Electrocution was first adopted in 1888 in New York as a quicker and more humane alternative to hanging. Two years later, on , New York state initiated its electric chair, executing William Kemmler at Auburn State Prison; in 1899 Martha Place became the first woman to be electrocuted.