Monday, January 12, 2009
Use Your Head for More Then a Hat Rack - Safety First
You know about the law requiring you call for utility locating before you do any excavation. This guy decided not to call. The pictures below are a result of this guy using a post hole digger without calling for “locates” and he hit an underground cross country gas pipe.This is what a high pressure gas main is capable of.
My God, look at the devastation.
ReplyDeleteIdiot! (You can say that here.) Every landscape job I worked where digging was involved, Diggers Hotline was called well in advance. Even then, sometimes things don't get marked.
I remember working with a steel spade, digging a fairly large hole for an arborvitae. The area had been marked and flagged by all the utilities. All of a sudden, my spade came up with some cable that wasn't supposed to be there. We carefully dug around it, nudged it aside, and planted the shrub next to it. I also took out phone service for a few homes once, and cable for another. And that was while being careful, in marked areas.
Only an idiot digs without calling first.
Wow what a tool that guy was. I wonder how many people and pets he took out? I'm sure he bit it. I'm worried about the pipes freezing this week.
ReplyDeleteI can't help but wonder in which county he and his house landed. Is this the expressway to Oz?
ReplyDeleteBTW ser, have you tried the chianti as yet?
Holy crap!!!!!!! Is the guy alive?
ReplyDeleteDA,if he is,he's in orbit.
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