Blackline Safety Corp. announced that it has secured a $3.9 million contract renewal with one of the utility companies in the U.S. Headquartered in the Midwest and serving over 4 million customers, the company became a Blackline customer in late 2021. The renewal adds two more years of monitoring by Blackline?s Safety Operations Center (SOC) as well as push-to-talk services for the utility company?s 2,200 G7 devices.

The customer is renewing the contract two and a half years after initial device deployment. Utility industry workers face multiple hazards on the job such as gas exposures, confined spaces, potential falls, adverse weather, customer confrontations, and working alone in areas with limited cellular coverage. The wearable G7?with features such as gas detection, SOS latch, fall and no motion detection, push-to-talk, and real-time connectivity?provides a critical lifeline in case of emergency.

This is the second time in just over a month that Blackline has announced growth in the utility sector?the first being a new $1.5 million deal with a California utility provider in May. Blackline also protects half of the water and wastewater companies in the United Kingdom, and recently expanded their water and wastewater client base into Australia.