Truck mishap causes outage at McDowell Shops
A dump truck hit a wire and knocked down a pole Monday afternoon, causing a partial power outage at the McDowell Shops in Peters Township.
The accident occurred at 2:25 p.m., said an official with Washington County’s non-emergency 911 system. No injuries were reported and “at least one or two” businesses closed early in the Route 19 complex, the county’s non-emergency 911 system official said.
West Penn Power was still responding to the outage Tuesday night.