An extension ladder leans against a power line, causing electrical arcs and intermittent fires on June 12, 2025, in the 1600 block of West 15th Street. A person was taken to a hospital Thursday after ...

STREATOR, Ill. (CBS)-- Five workers suffered electric shocks Tuesday while working on a house in Streator, about two hours southwest of Chicago. At 11 a.m., contractors were on ladders installing new ...

MIDDLETOWN — Two workers were seriously injured Monday when they received electrical shocks at a local apartment complex, a fire official said. The men survived the shocks, but it wasn't clear Tuesday ...

Police say a 62-year-old worker from a roofing company was raking snow from the roof with a metal rake.

An electrocution is an event in which a person dies from receiving an electric shock or series of shocks. In 2020, 126 workers were electrocuted. Many people who receive a shock seem unharmed. That ...