VIDALIA — A local boy is fine after receiving an electrical shock at the Vidalia ballpark Monday.

Cade Dorman, 2, was playing with several other children near a light pole at the park at the time of the incident.

Dorman leaned against the pole and placed his hand between the wooden pole and a metal cover on the pole, his mother Sunni Dorman said.

It didn’t take the boy long to let the adults nearby know something was wrong, Sunni Dorman said.

“He was screaming at the top of his lungs,” she said.

An unnamed paramedic pulled Cade’s fingers — which were curled to the metal by the electrical current — free, Dorman said.

The shock would not have been caused if a storm hadn’t recently blown through, Richard Jones with the Vidalia Electric Department said.

A nearby tree branch had shoved an electrical connector on the top of the pole against a guide wire — which is normally not live — touching the metal piece Dorman grabbed, Jones said.

The problem was not due to human error and has been fixed, Jones said.