EMERGENCY RESTORATION

Bringing Calm After The Storm

Sumter Utilities provides comprehensive storm emergency restoration throughout the Southeast and the Caribbean.  Our crews are always ready to respond when bad weather cripples your electrical system.

Southeastern US

·    Sumter Utilities works for major utility customer throughout the Southeast from Mississippi through Virginia.  After customer release, our crews can mobilize to many parts of the Southeast with 4 to 8 hours.

·    Our crews have responded to every major southeastern hurricane in the last 40 years.  They understand the challenges of a major storm response effort and are, as always, ready to meet that challenge.

·    Ice storms present a different challenge that Sumter Utilities has met on many occasions throughout our company history.

·    Our crews come prepared to do what is necessary to “turn the lights back on!”

Caribbean

·    We have responded to many hurricanes in the Caribbean throughout the 1990’s.  With our headquarters located in Charleston, SC, one of the largest shipping ports on the eastern seaboard and the site of the Charleston Air Force Base, Sumter Utilities is able to quickly mobilize its equipment by sea and by air!

·    We are familiar with the shipping requirements of the US military and private shipping lines so we can effectively minimize the beaurocratic paperwork delays.

·    Our employees are accustomed to working in the Caribbean for extended periods.

SETTING STANDARDS - SECOND TO NONE

PERSONNEL:

•   Our wages, benefits and company reputation allow us to attract and maintain the best employees in the business.

·    Our experienced employees arrive at your work site - a polished, polite, professional representative of the local utility.

·    Our team approach includes state-of-the-art, in-house accounting and productivity measurement systems that increase crew efficiency and reduce overhead and construction costs.

·    All challenges reviewed and scrutinized regularly by a project team which includes Superintendent, Estimator,  General Foreman and Safety Specialist.

·    We complete projects of all sizes and types!  No commercial, industrial or institutional job is too big or too small.

SAFETY:

·    No job is so important that we compromise safety.  At Sumter Utilities, Safety really is Job #1~We operate a full-time safety department consisting of a manager and two field safety specialists  All crews are inspected and graded on their safety performance every six weeks.

·    Our field employees are rewarded for their safety work methods though our Safety Incentive Program.

·    Sumter Utilities maintains one of the lowest Worker’s Comp Experience Modification Rates in the Southeast.

MODERN FLEET:

·    Our fleet is up-to-date and  meticulously maintained.

·    All trucks and equipment are standardized to project a professional graphic image to our customer, their consumers, and to the public.

·    Our complete, comprehensive equipment inventories include: hydraulic cranes; aerial bucket trucks; digger derricks and pressure diggers; all types conductor stringing equipment; excavation machinery including backhoes, dozers, loaders and trenchers.

·    All crews are completely tooled for the work they are performing.

 OTHER CONSTRUCTIVE FACTS

•   Corporate Headquarters: 1151 North Pike West, Sumter, SC 29153

·    Satellite Office: 1890 Milford Street, Charleston , SC  29405

•   Owner of One Subsidiary Company:

    Line Equipment Sales Co., Inc. (a wholesale supplier and distributor of electrical construction tools and power line materials).

    •   Bonding Company: Linden Company a Hobbs Group Company.

•   Currently Licensed in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas Vermont, Virginia and the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

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