Man gets life-threatening electric shock hanging Christmas lights on tree
A worker was seriously hurt when he received an electric shock while hanging Christmas lights on a tree in Wellesley, Massachusetts, on Wednesday morning, police said.
A worker was seriously hurt when he received an electric shock while hanging Christmas lights on a tree in Wellesley, Massachusetts, on Wednesday morning, police said.
The contractor was rushed to the hospital from Falmouth Circle with life-threatening injuries after the incident about 10 a.m., according to Wellesley police.
“He’ll be pretty lucky if he survives,” said Wellesley Police Officer Tim Gover. “He took a big hit.”
The man was using a pole to string up the lights and it came close to or touched an electrical line atop a utility pole, according to police, which gave him a shock. He was on foot and circling this pine tree when it happened.
“The pole he was using was about 34 feet long, and it came in either close proximity or actually touched a primary line that was only a few feet from the tree,” said Gover. “And he got zapped from that.”
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