Firefighters said the workers were trimming trees at Pershing Road and Greenwood Avenue near the Waukegan Generating Station, a now-shuttered coal-fired power plant. The workers' crane touched a power line, which energized the truck and gave the workers an electric shock.

Two employees with Waukegan’s Public Workers department were electrocuted while trimming trees on Thursday, authorities said.

Two Waukegan Public Works employees are recovering in the hospital on Thursday after they were electrocuted while trimming trees. According to officials from the Waukegan Fire Department, the incident happened Thursday mornnig near the intersection of East Greenwood Avenue and Pershing Road while the workers were trimming trees in the area,