Seven Employees of ComEd, an Exelon Company Receive MEA’s Life Sustaining Awards

Midwest ENERGY Association (MEA) is proud to announce that seven (7) energy operations members from ComEd, an Exelon Company have received Life Sustaining Awards. Each year MEA sponsors the Life Sustaining Awards program to recognize industry employees who have performed service “above and beyond” the call of duty by saving or attempting to save the life of another. Applicants for these awards are approved by the Executive Committee of MEA’s Board of Directors.

The 2015 Life Sustaining Awards went to:

• Carlos Guevera, account representative

     “LCS Account Manager Provides CPR to Unresponsive Citizen and Saves a Life”

• Travis Perry, meter reading manager and Cedric Weathers, field and meter services manager

     “Customer Operations Managers Rescue Elderly Man from Burning Vehicle”

• Eduardo Suarez, safety field services manager

     “ComEd Safety Managers Pulls Elderly Women from Vehicle Moments before Train Collision”

• James Sawyer, supervisor – construction

     “Joliet First Line Supervisor Saves Choking Man at Job Site”

• Thomas Moore, senior distribution systems dispatcher

     “Senior Distribution Systems Dispatcher Saves Driver from Burning Vehicle”

• Edward Hines, supervisor-field operations

     “Substation Operations Supervisor Provides Emergency Care to Heart Attack Victim”Read their Life Sustaining story here: http://www.midwestenergy.org/life-sustaining-award-2015.html

About MEA:
MEA serves the people that delivery electricity and natural gas to homes and businesses. MEA (Midwest ENERGY Association) was founded as a trade association over 100 years ago by distribution utilities, whose vision was to improve safety and efficiency. Today, energy delivery companies around the globe benefit from MEA’s industry learning seminars, operations summits, and other events. Members collaborated to develop EnergyU, the world’s premier online training and testing system for gas and electric distribution utilities.