Two Waukegan city workers were hospitalized Thursday when the boom on their truck came into contact with a power line, the Waukegan Fire Department said.
One of the workers was flown by helicopter to Loyola Medical Center in Maywood for treatment of electrical burns. The other was brought by ambulance to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville.
There was no additional information immediately available about their conditions, the fire department said.
The workers were injured at around 9:30 a.m. as they and other Waukegan Public Works crew members were trimming trees near the intersection of Pershing and Greenwood avenues.
The fire department said a crane boom on a truck came into contact with a power line, electrifying the truck and injuring the two men.
The other crew members tended to the injured men until paramedics arrived. ComEd personnel also responded to the scene.
