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Lessons Learned

A crew from a large Mississippi electrical contractor found this child while conducting a “circle of safety” walk-around of a company truck. Don’t even think about what would have happened if the employee had simply climbed up in the truck and driven off. Please share this eye-opening, bone-chilling photo and experience with all your work [...]

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Trench Collapses: What makes them SO significant?

by David V. Dow on April 10, 2012

Something a Little Different In this issue of Excavation Safety News, we’re doing things just a little differently. The link below will play a brief audio recording taken from a “Competent Person” class that David Dow taught recently in the Mid-South. Take just 4 minutes out of your day, and listen as David discusses some [...]

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Are You Ready for the Unthinkable?

by David V. Dow on March 23, 2012

Let’s assume your employer (company or utility) has an excellent safety program. You’ve been trained and designated as the “Competent Person” on project excavation sites. All the workers on your crew have been appropriately trained. You use trench-protection systems on your job sites. You have an emergency plan in place, and so on. Let’s also [...]

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