2 workers hospitalized after electric shock outside home in Ocean City, New Jersey
Two private contractors were rushed to a burn center in Philadelphia after Ocean City officials said they were injured on a job at the Jersey Shore Monday morning.
It happened just before 9 a.m. in the 100 block of Somerset Lane, Ocean City Fire Chief Bernard Walker said in a news release. Walker said the workers were injured after a metal ladder came into contact with electrical wires outside the job site.
One of the workers was moving the ladder on the outside of a home when it touched the wires, the fire chief said.
The person reportedly experienced an electric shock, and a second worker was hurt after touching the ladder while trying to help, Walker said.
The two workers were treated on scene and flown via helicopter to a Level 1 trauma center at Thomson Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Walker said. Their conditions are unknown at this time.