{"id":297618,"date":"2026-06-05T20:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297618\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T20:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:12:16","slug":"worker-electrocuted-on-power-pole-at-burnt-store-road-in-cape-coral-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297618\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker electrocuted on power pole at Burnt Store Road in Cape Coral | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014 A MasTec contractor was airlifted to a hospital after suffering an electrical shock while working on a power pole.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The incident happened at Janis Road and Burnt Store Road North around 8 a.m. Police shut down Burnt Store Road for a short time so a medical helicopter could land.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The man was airlifted to a hospital. Lee County Electric Company later used two bucket trucks to work on a power pole at the scene.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s unclear whether that pole was the one that shocked the man. His name and the extent of his injuries have not been released.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WINK News has contacted MasTec and the Lee County Electric Company for more information regarding this incident. Our team is waiting on a response.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/WINKNews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on-air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014 A MasTec contractor was airlifted to a hospital after suffering an electrical shock while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115,121785],"class_list":["post-297618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee","tag-news","tag-southwest_florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}