Call before you dig!

[yellowfever#154]

Call Before You Dig!

This is for the guy, who "knows it all", doesn't bother to take out permits before beginning a home project and wants to save a buck or two rather, than having someone professional do the job properly and is insured.

This guy killed his whole family, had his arm and leg blown off and is under guarded care [suicide watch] in a mental institution.
The area suffered much property damage, power outages, and other damage in the multi - thousands of dollars.
Needless to say, his insurance company refused to cover any incurred costs and his mortgage insurance has been suspended [cancelled].
His neighbours want him dead.

 

[5_0_BAIT]

sad. and really freakin' scary! Safe to assume he hit a gas line????

 

[yellowfever#154]

sad. and really freakin' scary! Safe to assume he hit a gas line????

Ooops,
Ya left that part out didnt I, he was digging a hole with a post hole auger and hit a cross country gas line. You can see the line in the first picture, compare it to the 2 people in the same picture and you can only guess how big it was along with the crater it created.

 

[LoveThisTruck]

Damn that's horrible

 

[Tooloe]

looks like he got ahold of the 42 inch'er yeah that'll blow some shit up

 

[srt 10 jimbo]

Looks Like a Meteorite hit

 

[BigRed460]

I thought those pipes had to be way deeper than that...

 

[linemup]

Looks Like a Meteorite hit

No doubt, that's crazy!

 

[Yellow venom]

WOW! where did this happen Tyler?

 

[ntw0rk]

This happened in Appomattox, Va.

Sorry! http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/gasmain.asp

 

[STOCKSRT10]

im doing gas lines right now and meters....it is nothing to play with as u can see

 

[Demon 8]

This happened in Appomattox, Va.

Sorry! http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/gasmain.asp

People always want things to be more dramatic than they really are. The accident is sad but not as sad as the guy who created the new story

 

[iraqivet01]

I have worked a lot of overtime due to diggers at the phone company.
A 400 pair cable will take 5 guys almost 6 hours to repair.

Fiber optic cable takes twice as many personal due to it not spliced at the cut. The glass shatters, and it has to dug up 250 - 300 feet on each direction. depending upon what size could take 8 to 10, or longer depending on the terrain.

The bill that follows an illegal dig can be up it the 10's of thousands. Fiber optic is worst because your not just paying for the repair, but the lost of money that the fibers are rented out for by long distance carriers, cell towers.

In the contract, we have 2 hours to find and repair, after that, the company has to repair the carriers sometimes up to 2-3 thousand an hours. If it should be a 72 count fiber, well, do the math.

Good example of one of our cuts was the I-40 bridge that got hit by a barge on Memorial weekend. It became a crime scene, so we had to jump through hoops and reroute all traffic to other fiber optic line and put in Hundreds of thousands worth of equipment. We worked two none stop days to get completed.

Until then all the towns south of that area had no cell service or long distances.

Be safe, and don't assume, call before you dig, no matter how small a project(most are fence post) or even if it is on your land a right of way or lease might have been established years prior to your purchase.

The locating service is free and it don't cost you a dime. But if you hit something, well you could be billed depending on the utility company.

Here in Oklahoma, it CALL OKIE.

 

[Soapy]

I once called in to have utility lines located and they came out and marked everything. I was going to use metal fence posts to support new trees I was planting. After they marked everything I planted the trees and and drove the metal fence posts in the ground. The next day my wife was watering the trees and one of the metal posts smoked and was sent out of the ground. Then about 20,000 people were without power for a while. The locator company had missed a high voltage line that ran about 10 feet inside my property line. THe metal fence post just clipped the insulation but did not cause an ARC. The water was all it took. I lucked out on that one but I did everything right and still almost killed myself.

 

[mauiSRT/10]

I once called in to have utility lines located and they came out and marked everything. I was going to use metal fence posts to support new trees I was planting. After they marked everything I planted the trees and and drove the metal fence posts in the ground. The next day my wife was watering the trees and one of the metal posts smoked and was sent out of the ground. Then about 20,000 people were without power for a while. The locator company had missed a high voltage line that ran about 10 feet inside my property line. THe metal fence post just clipped the insulation but did not cause an ARC. The water was all it took. I lucked out on that one but I did everything right and still almost killed myself.

Dude, you got real lucky!!!! Wow!

patrick

 

[SilvrSRT10]

Reminds me of the time I had burrito's and refried beans for lunch followed by a bloomin' onion for dinner. Yeap......that's about what it looked like.

 

[TNVIPER]

Looks like several lawsuits to me.....Glad there are no gas lines where I live..

 

[Django]

Mercy..............

D

 

[yellowfever#154]

This happened in Appomattox, Va.

Sorry! http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/gasmain.asp

Its interesting the stories people come up with, I copied it from a email. This almost makes it worse though as it wasnt a particular persons fault. We were trying to build a new store for our dealership and the land we wanted was ontop of a big gas line. We wernt able to build there due to our asshole counselors, maybe kinda glad now that we wernt able to.

 

[GADodgetech]

An explosion like that and that sumbitch aint dead????