A construction worker suffered from an electric shock at the police non-commissioned officers’ barracks of the 2nd Negros Occidental Provincial Mobile Force Company in Sitio Headquarters, Brgy. Gargato, Hinigaran, Negros Occidental, on Saturday, Sept. 28.
The 32-year-old construction worker of Brgy. San Jose, Binalbagan, sustained second degree burns and is now in stable condition.
Investigation revealed that while the victim was installing the roof of the barracks, the galvanized sheet he was holding accidentally touched a primary line of the Negros Occidental Electric Cooperative resulting to his electrocution.
The victim was brought to the Hinigaran Medical Clinic and later transferred to a hospital in Bacolod.*