While installing new cable in the control house at our Hewitt Road Switching Station in Lexington Park this morning, an inadvertent short occurred causing a breaker to open at our Ryceville Switching Station that de-energized the line feeding the Hewitt Road station.
The outage duration was from 9:20 to 9:30 a.m. and affected more than 36,000 customers.
SMECO technicians followed our normal safety protocols; no one was injured and we are continuing to investigate the incident.