Electric News Release

Employee’s Body Recovered From Coal Silo

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The body of a fuel handler was removed at 2 p.m. Sunday from a coal silo at the Morgantown Energy Associates’ Beechurst Avenue power station.

Ronald E. Wolff Jr., 32, had been working in the silo when he was fatally injured after an internal structure gave way at 1:30 a.m. Thursday. His body was discovered by rescue workers late Friday afternoon.

Wolff, of Morgantown, had worked as a fuel handler at the power station shortly after it began operating in 1992. He is survived by his wife, three children, his parents and siblings.

“On behalf of all of Ron’s co-workers and the entire Dominion family, we extend our deepest sympathies to his family,” said Jesse Locklar, director of the power station. “This has been a trying time for everyone involved. Each of our lives will be changed in some way by this loss.”

Wolff was one of 52 employees at the MEA facility that produces electricity for Allegheny Power and provides steam to West Virginia University. A fuel handler maintains the fuel supply within the silo.

Efforts now will turn to finding a way to stabilize and dismantle the silo.

Dominion Energy, a subsidiary of Dominion (NYSE: D), is the majority owner of the MEA facility.

Dominion, headquartered in Richmond, Va., is one of the nation’s largest producers of energy, with a production capability of 2.7 trillion British thermal units of energy per day. For more information about Dominion, visit the company's web site at www.dom.com.

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