WORTH TWP — A man died Friday night after a tree branch fell through his mobile home.

Firefighters and medical technicians with the Slippery Rock Volunteer Fire Company and Rescue Team were called to the home on West Park Road about 5:30 p.m., Chief Ken Taggart said.

Butler County Deputy Coroner Larry Barr said the 31-year-old man died instantly of head injuries. An autopsy was done Saturday morning.

Barr said Saturday morning he did not release the man’s name because he was waiting to speak with the family.

Barr said a young child was in the home at the time of the incident but was not injured.

A neighbor said that the trailer is in the 900 block of West Park Road and winds brought down tree branches around the area.

The branch of the tree that fell on the trailer was about 2-feet around, Taggart said.

“It was a good-sized tree,” he said.

Responders did not remove the tree from the trailer.

The call was one of many that fire departments across the county responded to Friday night. Butler County Emergency Services received more than 70 reports of fallen utility wires and trees across roads, according to dispatch reports.

“It was widespread through the whole county,” said Steve Bicehouse, director of emergency services. “I don’t think there was a (fire) department that didn’t get hit.”

Pat Herald, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh, said a band of strong storms passed over Western Pennsylvania throughout the evening.

“It looks like from 4:45 p.m. to 7 p.m. it was over Butler County,” Herald said Saturday morning.

Reports indicated winds reached 55 mph in the county, Herald said, adding the surrounding counties received similar winds.

Herald said a chance of thunderstorms will continue throughout the weekend.

“But they’re not expected to be widespread like last night,” he said.

Fallen trees and branches covered roads across all corners of the county.

Bicehouse said there was no particular area hit harder than another.

“It was a straight line through the entire county,” he said.

Reid Campbell, fire chief with the West Sunbury Volunteer Fire Department, said it was a busy night for volunteer firefighters.

“Our last call came at 11:30 p.m.,” he said. “It was a long evening. But we worked through them.”

Campbell said fallen trees can take time to clear because crews won’t cut them if they are tangled in electrical lines.

“The fallen wires held us up because we had to wait for the power company,” he said.

Many homes throughout the county reported power outages due to the fallen lines.

A spokesman for West Penn Power said more than 1,200 customers in the county were without power at about 9 p.m.

More than 650 customers remained without power Saturday morning, with Slippery Rock, Fairview, Clay and Middlesex townships reporting the most outages.

The company’s website said power may not be restored to all the homes until late Saturday night.

West Penn Power serves more than 79,000 customers in the county.

Likewise, more than 310 Central Electric Cooperative members in the county remained without power Saturday morning.

The company in a news release issued Saturday morning said there were 4,100 members in Butler and Armstrong counties without power at the height of the storm at about 8 p.m. Friday.

Full restoration is expected to occur by later in the day on Saturday, the release said.