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Electric Safety

The Electric Department has an outstanding safety record.  The department has earned the American Public Power Association’s 2005 and 2006 Electric Utility Safety Award for safe operating practices.  The award is in the category for utilities with 15,000-29,999 worker-hours of annual worker exposure.  APPA is the national organization representing more than 2,000 not-for-profit, community and state-owned electric utilities.  The Electric Department has also won the Annual Municipal Electric Safety Award from ElectriCities of North Carolina for no lost time accidents eight (8) years in a row, 1999-2006.

The City of Shelby Electric Department recently earned Reliable Public Power Provider (RP3) recognition from the American Public Power Association.  To read more about the recognition, click here.

North Carolina One Call

The North Carolina One-Call Center, a non-profit organization funded by members, takes excavation information from contractors, utilities and homeowners, anyone engaged in excavation activities, and transmits this information to our members. The member utility owner or their representatives will mark the location of the underground facilities within 48 hours of your call, free of charge. The members range from utilities to universities, from municipalities to home owner associations. Each caller is informed of the members that will be notified. The excavator needs to call directly, any utility owner or their representative that is not a member to physically mark the utility lines.
 
The North Carolina One-Call Center does not mark utility lines. It does provide an easy communications link between excavator and utility owner.