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Update: Worker injured in Wal-Mart accident dies

2 other men burned remain in serious but stable condition

A worker severely burned in an electrical accident this August at the construction site for the new Wal-Mart Supercenter died Friday.\nScott Shelton, Anderson, died at about 10:45 p.m. Friday in the burn center at Wishard Memorial Hospital after his heart stopped, according to hospital officials and family members. He was unable to be resuscitated.\nShelton, 35, an employee of Electromation Inc., in Muncie, received burns covering 95 percent of his body after an electrical panel he and two other men were working on was charged with 12,000 volts of electricity and shorted. The resulting electrical arc -- which extended six to eight feet -- sparked a fire in the service room, lighting all three men on fire.\nLarry Shelton, Scott's father, declined to speak in detail about his son's death but said the family will be making funeral arrangement in Alabama, where he is from originally.\nRobert Eury, 29, Bloomington, and Stephen Abbott, 27, Otterbein, Ind., who were also burned in the accident, remained in serious but stable condition at Wishard Hospital on Sunday night.\nShelton is survived by his parents, Larry and Janet Shelton, of Alabama; his fiancée, Tammy Sniegowski, and a seven-month-old daughter, Mallory Shelton, both of Anderson; and several siblings, cousins and other extended family members in both Tennessee and Alabama.

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