Police: Belcamp Man Plowing Snow Before Death

Baltimore County police are now investigating the death of a county property management worker who died Monday while plowing snow.

The Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled that Philip Wayne Higgins, 57, of the 4400 block of Declaration Circle in Belcamp, died from multiple injuries, and ruled the manner of death accidental, Baltimore County police said. 

Baltimore County Fire Department crews responded to a report of cardiac arrest at 11:34 a.m. in Kingsville. A bystander discovered Higgins lying about 10 to 20 feet away from his county-issued 2012 Ford F-550 truck in a county-owned parking lot at the former site of the Gunpowder Falls Golf Course, according to a news release.

Emergency crews administered CPR and other medical care to Higgins, a veteran county employee of more than 30 years, but attempts to revive him were unsuccessful, according to the report. He was transported to Franklin Square Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Elise Armacost, a police spokeswoman, said the department was not initially involved because the call was for a cardiac arrest, but now the crash team is looking into the matter because Higgins sustained injuries consistent with being struck by a vehicle.

"It was not immediately clear what happened," Armacost said.

Armacost said Higgins was alone when the incident occurred.

"It's still unclear what the sequence of events were...[but] there's no foul play involved in the case," she said.

The investigation is ongoing.