Junction City Fire / EMS personnel responded to the Century Link building at Sixth and Jefferson Streets late Tuesday morning where a construction worker who was working on top of the building was injured.

According to Fire Department Captain Don Stremming the employee of Premier Contracting of Kansas City, Kansas was on the roof removing metal flashing from the side of the building near the roof.  The metal flashing came in contact with nearby high voltage lines and the employee, whose name is not known, suffered electrical burns to his right arm.

The male employee, was reported in critical but stable condition at the scene. He was taken by ambulance to exit 313 on Interstate 70 to meet a Life Star helicopter for further transport to the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City.