A contractor hanging up holiday lights at a Wellesley home suffered a life-threatening electric shock and was revived by a defibrillator on Wednesday, according to police.

A Wellesley police officer said that the contractor "will be pretty lucky if he survives" after he was resuscitated by first responders on Thanksgiving Eve

A worker was seriously hurt when he received an electric shock while hanging Christmas lights on a tree in Wellesley, Massachusetts, on Wednesday morning, police said.

A 24-year-old man died last Thursday morning after being electrocuted while hanging Christmas lights near a high-voltage powerline in

A worker was seriously hurt when he received an electric shock while hanging Christmas lights on a tree in Wellesley, Massachusetts. WBTS Michael Rosenfeld reports.

Police said the man was installing holiday lights on a large tree using a pole, which appeared to come in close proximity, or actual contact, with a primary electrical line on a utility pole.

A man was nearly electrocuted to death after being hired to hang Christmas lights on a large tree in Massachusetts, police said.

A Wellesley contractor was nearly killed after hanging Christmas lights on a tree outside. The man was using a pole to put up the lights when it touched an electrical line above a utility post sending an electric shock to him,

A worker in Wellesley, Massachusetts was almost killed while hanging Christmas lights on a tree Wednesday. Police say the 22-year-old contractor hired by a resident was using a pole to hang the lights on a large tree when he was electrocuted,