Before You Dig: 5 Questions Every Contractor Should Ask Before Excavation
Before You Dig: 5 Questions Every Contractor Should Ask Before Excavation Before You Break Ground Every excavation project begins with decisions that affect the safety of everyone on the jobsite. Whether you’re digging, trenching, directional drilling (HDD), grading a site, installing underground infrastructure, or preparing a jobsite for construction, your responsibility is the same: making sure it’s safe to break ground. […]
Safety Sweep: How Crews Use Pipehorn to Find Unmarked Utilities Before Digging
Calling 811 and verifying locate marks is the first step before excavation. But experienced crews know that not every line is easy to locate. Sometimes there is damaged tracer wire. Sometimes there is an abandoned service no one knew was there. Sometimes marks are missing, or the route just does not make sense. That is […]