EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally comes from CBS News and can be read in full on its website.
A landscape worker was killed, and another was seriously injured after they came into contact with power lines while working along Route 28 in Salem, New Hampshire Thursday afternoon.
The workers were trimming trees in a manlift bucket in the parking lot of a credit union when they came into contact with the live power lines around 1:30 p.m. officials said.
The worker who was seriously injured was rushed to Mass General Hospital in Boston with electrical burns. The worker who died was identified as 45-year-old Marc Glaser of Salem, New Hampshire.
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