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Cabin Creek Landslide

A large landslide on Friday near Cabin Creek on Snoqualmie Pass caused significant damage to transmission lines that go through the area. Crews worked over the weekend to assess damage including flying drones. Access is limited and assessments are ongoing as to whether crews can safely work in the area.

While the landslide caused damage to PSE’s high voltage lines, there are no customers currently out of power as a result of this incident. Customers in the Hyak and Easton areas are being supplied power through the redundant high voltage lines, which currently have no alternative circuit configurations from the east

With more rain and wind forecasted this week, there is a concern of prolonged power outages if the active high voltage lines are impacted.

Watch pse.com/alerts for information in the event of an outage and follow the safety tips on that page if the power goes out.


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Safety first. Never touch or go within 35 feet of downed power lines because they might be energized. Call PSE at 1-888-225-5773 or 911 to report problems.

Report and track power outages online

Job Modifications

When medical issues limit an employee’s ability to work, job modifications may be available. Job modifications include reasonable accommodations and transitional duty. Employees who are able to keep working continue earn their full rate of pay and benefits.

Reasonable accommodations

Modifications to the work environment or how the job is performed that enable the employee with medical restrictions to effectively perform the required duties of their regular job.

Transitional duty

A time-limited removal of job functions the employee is medically unable to perform. Transitional duty may be available to employees whose medical restrictions are less than two months in duration. Note that this time limit does not apply to restrictions resulting during pregnancy.

There are two types of transitional duty:

  • Restricted work
    The short-term elimination of job functions the employee is unable to perform due to short-term medical restrictions
  • Alternative work
    Duties that are not part of the employee’s regular body of work. This work may be performed outside of the employee’s department. For employees with medical issues that are not covered by a workers’ compensation claim, please note that time away from an employee’s regular job is counted as short term disability. This applies to alternative work assignments (paid at 100%) as well as being off work (paid at 80%) as the wages are paid by the Human Resources Department, not the employee’s cost center.

Employees may be able to benefit from reasonable accommodations or transitional duty. Puget Sound Vocational Services is available to provide more information about the process, help identify job modification possibilities, and facilitate the necessary arrangements.

Employees are eligible for these services when temporary or permanent physical, sensory, or mental impairments substantially limit job performance. Employees are also eligible if medical documentation indicates the impairment is likely to become substantially limiting if not accommodated.

Solutions Northwest may be reached by calling the general number (425) 628-0350, via email at psereferral@solutionsnw.com.

Employees are encouraged to bring the following forms to their health care provider and have them faxed directly to Solutions Northwest at (360) 866-4773.

Forms