Erik Gates (center) with Adam Savage (L) and Jamie Hyneman (R)
Discovery Channel’s “Mythbusters” TV show regular Erik Gates dies from a tragic 30 feet fall. Gates owned the electric company “Gateco Electric” and he and his CFO appeared on a few episodes of the popular Discovery Channel TV show, “Mythbusters”.
Gates, 47, fell through a skylight on the building and died of blunt force injuries to the chest. He was lucid and talking at the scene immediately after the fall, but died later at the hospital, reported Gather.com.
Gates was accompanied by a colleague during the accident but the colleague was not able to see how or why Gates plummeted to his death. No further investigation into his death is reported to be launched.
The building where Erik Gates fell and later died is owned by Gates’ brother,Dirk Gates, who is president and CEO of Xirrus, Inc.
MythBusters is a show that is on each Wednesday where cast members work on “separating truth from urban legend” on each episode. The cast features Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage. Erik Gates was a regular guest on the show as an “honorary MythBuster. A Rocketry expert, Erik provided rockets and his rocketry expertise in several myths, starting with the very first experiment—the legend of the Jet Assisted Take-Off Chevy Impala.