> http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/auto/epaper/editions/today/metro_state_7.html
>
> > Austin American-Statesman, 14 May 2003:
> >
> > TRAVIS COUNTY
> >
> > Worker killed in fall from tower
> >
> > A Longview man fell 600 to 800 feet to his death late Tuesday morning
> > while working on a television tower, the Travis County sheriff's office
> > said.
> >
> > Jimmy Cotton, 35, was part of a subcontractor crew replacing a
> > microwave receiver on the tower in the 5300 block of Buckman Mountain
> > Road north of West Lake Hills. The tower is 1,200 feet tall. Cotton had
> > just finished his task when he fell, the sheriff's office said.
> > Investigators have not determined what caused him to fall.
> >
> > A woman who answered the phone at Epic Communications, a Dripping
> > Springs company where Cotton worked, declined to comment.
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