Man suffers electrical shock near Mt. Morris
MT. MORRIS – A man apparently suffered an electrical shock Wednesday morning at an electrical substation in the Bald Hill area of Dunkard Township.
Fire companies were called at 9:28 a.m. after Greene County 911 received a call from a woman reporting her companion received an electric shock in an area near a sign for a Dana Mining operation. The woman was apparently in an area with poor cellphone reception.
“Her phone was broken up and she was hard to hear,” said Jeff Rhodes, a 911 coordinator. “We tried to get a location but it was so broken up we couldn’t figure it out.”
The Mt. Morris and Bobtown volunteer fire companies were both dispatched to attempt to find them.
Rhodes said the 911 center was able to check the cell phone coordinates and it came up in the vicinity of Creek Hill Road. However, nothing was found in that area.
The center later learned a person suffering an electric shock was taken to Ruby Memorial Hospital, Morgantown, W.Va., after apparently having been driven there by someone at the scene of the incident. Rhodes said the hospital verified it had received a patient from the Mt. Morris area with an electrical shock; however, could provide the center with no other information.