ARMADA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A county roads employee tackled a co-worker away from an electrically charged trailer after a current from a nearby power line jumped to the vehicle during a guardrail installation.
The Macomb County sheriff’s office says the 38-year-old road crew worker who was tackled was touching the trailer Thursday morning in Armada Township, north of Detroit.
A boom-type mechanism used to lift heavy objects got close to the power line. The boom was connected to a work vehicle and the trailer. An electric charge passed through the trailer and into the worker.
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Sheriff’s officials say the worker was being treated at a hospital for serious injuries.
The incident is under investigation.
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