A 45-year-old garbage collector was critically injured on Saturday afternoon after accidentally coming in contact with a high-tension electric wire near D-Mart on Link Road near the municipal corporation premises in Nalasopara East in Palghar district.

According to eyewitnesses, Balaji Waghmare was looking for scrap on a heap of soil dumped on the land near Capital Mall where municipal work is underway. Locals said that a high-tension wire passes directly above the plot. Due to excessive soil filling, the height of the mound had risen dangerously close to the live wire.