An electrical worker was badly injured after being electrocuted while working on power lines from a cherry picker in Queens on Friday.
The worker, an employee of E-J Electric, was severely electrocuted while in the elevated box of a cherry picker working on power lines at 117th St. and Ninth Ave. in College Point around 11:30 a.m., sustaining burns to the chest and neck, FDNY officials said.
EMS rushed the worker to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens. The individual’s condition was not immediately known.
Photographs taken at the scene show the scorched cherry picker box.
The News has reached out to E-J Electric for information on the worker’s status and details on how the accident happened.
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