RICHMOND, Va. – A Dominion Virginia Power groundman died
Wednesday while working on a power line near Richmond.
Curtis F. Lane, 31, of Bumpass, Va., was electrocuted while
working near Oilville in Goochland County, just west of Richmond, at about 1
p.m. Lane and a lineman were removing a power line between two poles when the
accident occurred.
The company is investigating the accident. The Occupational
Safety and Health Administration has been notified.
Lane, who joined the company in March 2000, is survived by
his wife and a child. His death was the first for a member of a Dominion Virginia
Power line crew since 1991.
Dominion Virginia Power
is a subsidiary of Dominion, one of the nation’s largest producers of energy.
Dominion serves about 2 million retail electricity customers in Virginia and
northeastern North Carolina and 2 million natural gas customers in West Virginia,
Pennsylvania and Ohio. For more information on Dominion, visit the company's
Web site at www.dom.com.
