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Friday, March 9, 2007
Power restored to state office building
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Limited power has been restored to the east tower of a downtown state government office building two days after an incident that left two workers injured.
The workers were doing preventive maintenance Wednesday afternoon on cooling equipment at the James H. Floyd Veterans Memorial Building near the Capitol when a gear malfunctioned, damaging a transformer and cutting power to the 20-story tower for about two hours, according to Ericka Brown Davis, spokesperson for the Georgia Building Authority.
The incident, which included a flash fire, occurred around 4 p.m., shortly before many state employees headed home. Since then, many state employees at the “Sloppy Floyd” building have had to work outside of the office because of limited power to operate lights, computers, elevators and air conditioning. Only two elevators were working Friday.
“Most of our employees are working from an alternate work site,” said Dana Tofig, spokesman for the Department of Education, which has offices on floors 15-20. The department normally has about 400 employees in the building but “a fairly large percentage” weren’t there two days after the accident, Tofig said.
Temperature reached into the 70s on Thursday, causing discomfort for many of those still in the building. “I understand it was pretty miserable,” said Beth Brown, spokesperson for the Department of Natural Resources, which has space on floors 10-14.
Corrections, Pardons and Paroles, Veterans Services, the Administrative Office of the Courts and the Georgia Building Authority also have offices in the east tower.
One of the injured workers has returned home and the second one continues to receive medical attention but is stable, Davis said.
Why the gear failed is being investigated, she said.
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