From the NY Daily News:

A Con Edison worker looking forward to marriage next year died Thursday in a fiery
manhole blast that trapped him in an underground death chamber,
authorities said.

George Dillman, 26, was splicing high-voltage cables 10 feet beneath the street in Brooklyn when the explosion shook the earth around him.

Craig Penney, 28, tried desperately to get to the electrician, but it was no use.

"The guy down there – he didn’t have a chance," said one witness, a retired cop. "He would have needed God to pull him out."