CASS COUNTY, ND (Valley News Live) – One person has life-threatening injuries after being electrocuted in Cass County Tuesday afternoon.

Authorities were called around 2 p.m. to an area near Argusville for a critical medical emergency.

They discovered that a person had been electrocuted after digging into a buried live power line. The company working on the site believed it was idle at the time of the excavation.

The person was life transported to an area hospital. No word on their current status at this time.

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