A Board of Public Works vehicle is shown leaving the scene where Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler recovered skeletal remains Thursday afternoon. Fowler and the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office worked to identify the body, discovered in a grassy field behind an old Hamrick's plant off Hyatt Street. Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler is conducting another death investigation, this time after human remains were found at a Board of Public Works power substation.

According to Fowler, BPW employees went to the substation behind the Hamrick's Number 5 plant at 178 Hyatt St. on Tuesday to cut grass and discovered human remains. Authorities were contacted and Fowler was dispatched to the scene.

Fowler confirmed the body was badly decomposed and that identification was not possible at the scene. An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday. The remains appeared to be of a white male. An age was not determined.

Fowler said it appeared the body had been at the location for six to eight months, and that BPW workers had not been to the high voltage area for possibly a year.

The investigation will continue.