MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — A 35-year-old worker of utility Nationwide Grid died on the hospital after he was electrocuted at a piece web site in Massachusetts early Thursday, officers stated.
The employee was alone in {an electrical} field in Medford when he was electrocuted at about 12:30 a.m., in accordance with the Middlesex district lawyer’s workplace.
A police officer working a element on the web site reported the damage. Medford fireplace and EMS carried out life-saving measures earlier than the person was taken to Massachusetts Normal Hospital the place he was pronounced lifeless.
The loss of life is just not thought of suspicious. No title was launched.
“With nice unhappiness we will verify that early this morning a Nationwide Grid electrical worker died after sustaining accidents on the job whereas working in Medford, Massachusetts,” Nationwide Grid stated in an announcement. “Our instant precedence is guaranteeing we’re doing every little thing we will to assist this worker’s household and colleagues.”
Three Medford cops had been taken to the hospital for remedy of smoke inhalation and later launched.
The federal Occupational Security and Well being Administration responded to the scene to help with the investigation.
The final time a employee was electrocuted in Massachusetts was on Sept. 8, when a landscaper made contact with stay wires whereas trimming timber in Northborough, in accordance with the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Security and Well being, a employee advocacy group.
This evening, showers and thunderstorms remain likely throughout the state, mainly before 10 p.m. The forecast calls for cloud coverage in the early portion of the evening which should clear up later on. The temperature could drop as low as 61 degrees with winds coming in from the west around 11 mph.
