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It was a warm, humid July morning, National Lineworker Appreciation Day in fact, when Eric Golbranson, a Line Crew Leader out of Quincy, MA, was preparing to leave one jobsite for his next.

WALTHAM, MA – August 11 (8-11), is National 811 Safe Digging Day, and National Grid is reminding customers that every digging project, no matter how large or small, always requires a call to 811 (by dialing 811).

WALTHAM, MA – National Grid today joins the United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) as a participant in Safe + Sound Week, a nationwide event held each August to recognize workplace health and safety programs and to offer information and ideas on how to keep workers safe.

WALTHAM, MA – Roughly 24 hours after Tropical Storm Isaias hit New England, thrashing the region with heavy rain and winds that toppled entire trees and took down power lines, thousands of National Grid employees and contractors are focused on clean-up and restoration.

National Grid line, tree and service workers in eastern New York continue to focus on public safety as they remove downed wires, trees, tree limbs and other hazards and replace broken poles after damaging wind and rain from Tropical Storm Isaias swept across the region yesterday.

Two new western New York substations will improve system reliability and increase electricity capacity.

WALTHAM, MA – National Grid is preparing for severe weather in New England as Tropical Storm Isaias makes its way up the coast.

ALBANY, N.Y. - In preparation for possible high winds and heavy rain from Tropical Storm Isaias, National Grid has shifted resources from western New York to add to its full complement of regional crews to respond to damage caused by forecasted severe weather Tuesday night into Wednesday across the eastern portion of the state.