TAMPA — A 26-year-old construction worker was electrocuted Tuesday when a piece of equipment he was operating touched a utility wire at a South Tampa job site, police said.

The incident took place at about 11:20 a.m. Sergio Omar Vallin Hernandez of Lithia was operating a boom while workers were pouring a concrete slab at the site near the intersection of W Obispo Street and S Grady Avenue, according to Tampa police.

Then the boom touched an electrical wire, police said.

Hernandez, an employee for David Fields Concrete Pumping, was taken to a local hospital. He was pronounced dead there, police said.

The company did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.