Local News in Brief : Irvine : Man Electrocuted While Snapping Photo
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A photographer was electrocuted Friday while taking pictures at an Irvine yacht-building company.
Rick J. Malmin, 41, of Silverado Canyon was crawling across a 30-foot-high I-beam at Ericson Yachts to take an overhead shot, police said. He received an electrical shock when his legs straddled the beam and touched two electrical conductors on the crane.
A spokesman for the company said Malmin had been hired by the firm’s advertising agency to take pictures of a new line of boats.
He died about 4:40 p.m. at Western Medical Center in Santa Ana.
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