Tuesday, February 9, 2010

1-800-DIG-RIGHT

There is a law in the USA requiring that you call for underground utility locations before you do any excavation.

The pictures below are a result of a farmer using a post hole digger without calling for "locates" and he hit an underground, high-pressure cross country gas pipe.

Had to be one of those gas powered augers, either free-standing or on a tractor.

They never did find the guy...

It took out 2 homes...













1 comment:

Terri Rashid said...

This seemed unbelievable, so I dug around on the web and found this:

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/89-1.shtml

The pics are real, just not the story. :>

See here for the local newspaper's version:

http://www2.newsadvance.com/lna/news/local/article/a_view_from_above_appomattox_pipeline_explosion/8689/