Two crew members with the Irwindale Speedway in the San Gabriel Valley were hospitalized Saturday afternoon after suffering electric shock, officials said.
The victims, one in his 30s and the other in his 40s, were electrocuted while working with a race-car driver ahead of the evening’s NASCAR event, a manager at the motorsports facility told KTLA.
The two men were in a narrow space when they made contact with a trailer, which had been “supercharged” for undetermined reasons, while touching a chain-link fence, the staffer said.
Paramedics at the scene attended to the men before crews with the Los Angeles County Fire Department arrived at around 2:30 p.m.
One of them suffered cardiac arrest but was resuscitated, officials said.
They were last listed in stable condition.
The scheduled event was held as planned at 7 p.m. on Saturday, which was first responders and military appreciation night at the venue.
“THANK GOD FOR FIRST RESPONDERS!!” a post on Irwindale Speedway’s Facebook page said.
