According to the Florence County Sheriff's Department, 28-year-old Michael Rhode was working on a power line along an ATV trail shortly before noon on Saturday.
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FLORENCE -- A Wisconsin man has died after a weekend accident in in Florence.
According to the Florence County Sheriff's Department, 28-year-old Michael Rhode was working on a power line along an ATV trail shortly before noon on Saturday.
He was an employee of MJ Electric in Iron Mountain.
After power was knocked out to the area, a resident found Rhode still in his harness, hanging about 40 feet in the air on a transmission tower.
He was taken to Dickinson County Memorial and later transferred to the Milwaukee Burn Center.
He passed away at 4:45 Tuesday morning.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation.
