An employee of a contractor working to clean water wells in Harlan, Tuesday, received an electrical shock when a boom on his service vehicle struck an energized 69-volt Northern Iowa Power Cooperative power line. According to officials with Harlan Municipal Utilities, the worker employed by The Cahoy Group was raising the boom on his truck, when the incident occurred a little after 4-p.m., Tuesday. The crewman was transported to Myrtue Medical Center by a fellow employee. He remained in the facility Tuesday night, for observation. His name was not released.

The Cahoy Group was hired to clean HMU water wells in an area known as the south well field in order to increase operational efficiency.