Monday, January 19, 2009

Always Call Before You Dig

Potential Consequences Of Ignoring The "One-Call" System

The guy who did this and anyone else helping him, surely did not survive.

You just never know what you are going to find when you go poking around below the surface.

I thought we could all learn a little about safety from this dramatic event.

Just because you think you are in the "middle of nowhere" does not mean there is not something there.

The pictures below are a result of a guy using a post hole digger without calling for a "locate" ...he hit an underground intra-state cross country natural gas pipe. This is what a high pressure gas main is capable of:



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