P & G worker injured by electric shock

A man working at a Procter & Gamble facility was taken to the hospital this morning following what initially was reported to be an electrocution.

Dispatchers, who made the call just at 7:57 a.m. to respond to P&G’s Beckett Ridge Technical Center, 8256 Union Centre Blvd., reported someone could be heard screaming.

“There was a gentleman working on an HVAC system in the building and he grabbed onto some kind of pipe and felt like … there was an electric charge and he couldn’t let go,” according to Barbara Wilson, the township’s spokeswoman for the township. “He felt tingling.”

The facility shut down power to that portion of the system and West Chester Twp. life squad took the man to Bethesda North Hospital in stable condition, Wilson said.

“We didn’t have to use an AED on him and he remained alert the whole time,” she said.

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