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Man dies changing lights at football stadium
Posted: 07.07.2009 at 6:08 PM
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A Florence man was shocked, and died Tuesday morning while changing lights at the Marlboro County High School football stadium.

Coroner Tim Brown tell us 36-year-old John Christopher Touchberry was shocked, and then fell from the lighting tower platform, where he was standing.

We're told he fell 100 feet to the ground.

The coroner says he's waiting on autopsy results to confirm Touchberry's cause of death.

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