Worker hospitalized after drilling rig hits Dominion Energy high-voltage line
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Worker hospitalized after drilling rig hit Dominion Energy high-voltage line at landfill
By: Power outages as of 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, May 1.
Power was "being restored in phases to not overwhelm the grid" as of just after 4 p.m. officials with the Northern Neck Electric Cooperative said.
Power had been restored to more than 11,000 cooperative members who lost service as of about 4:45 p.m.
Additionally, power was restored to Dominion Energy customers, according to the power company's online outage tracker as of 4:45 p.m.
Earlier in the afternoon, more than 15,000 customers were without power. That included 6,877 customers in Westmoreland, 3,245 in Essex, 2,511 in Richmond (County), 2105 in Northumberland, 434 in King William and 394 in King and Queen.
Dominion Energy officials said a construction truck was working near one of the power company's transmission lines when it caught fire and caused the outage.
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