Electrical explosion injures workers at Bethesda metro station

Emergency responders at the Medical Center Metro station in Bethesda on Monday. (Steve Thompson/The Washington Post)

The Washington Post News Service & Syndicate//June 8, 2026//

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Multiple workers were injured in an electrical explosion Monday morning at the Medical Center Metro station in Bethesda, authorities said.

Rescue vehicles sped to the station just before 8 a.m., snarling traffic along Rockville Pike near the National Institutes of Health, but the station remained open to rail passengers.

The workers had been in an electrical shaft or vault at the station, said Pete Piringer, spokesman for the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service. One of them was taken to a hospital as a “priority one” patient with shocks or burns, Piringer said. Two others were transported in serious condition.