{"id":177625,"date":"2026-04-27T22:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177625\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T22:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:07:10","slug":"2-workers-hospitalized-after-electric-shock-outside-home-in-ocean-city-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177625\/","title":{"rendered":"2 workers hospitalized after electric shock outside home in Ocean City, New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two private contractors were rushed to a burn center in Philadelphia after Ocean City officials said they were injured on a job at the Jersey Shore Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It happened just before 9 a.m. in the 100 block of Somerset Lane, Ocean City Fire Chief Bernard Walker said in a news release. Walker said the workers were injured after a metal ladder came into contact with electrical wires outside the job site.<\/p>\n<p>One of the workers was moving the ladder on the outside of a home when it touched the wires, the fire chief said.<\/p>\n<p>The person reportedly experienced an electric shock, and a second worker was hurt after touching the ladder while trying to help, Walker said.<\/p>\n<p>The two workers were treated on scene and flown via helicopter to a Level 1 trauma center at Thomson Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Walker said. Their conditions are unknown at this time.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two private contractors were rushed to a burn center in Philadelphia after Ocean City officials said they were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45676,915,14576,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-177625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-cape-may-county","tag-new-jersey","tag-ocean-city-new-jersey","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}