I was working in the area, and recall when the below incident happened, pile driving contractor, was installing piles for a new building at Newark Airport, and literally drove a pile right through high voltage lines, below in an electrical duct bank. hhat a fiasco, the article below describes what happened.
I worked full time as an equipment operator for several years in the site work, excavation/foundation and or underground utility field, and one thing I hated the most was dealing with existing underground utilities, especially power. Always make the call to "call before you dig" and all the rest, even then its never a guarantee, so you really have to make sound judgement in the field, hand dig, use methods to work around and expose things. One outfit whom I worked for, doing work for a large G.C. had superintendent that always requested me for delicate work, he used to say, "that kid is careful and knows what he is doing" and I would say, that might be the case, but theres still a lot more to it than that. You just never know, I am a big fan of hand digging when near or close to something, always have a good laborer with an attentive eye in the hole.
Properly done as built drawings, caution tape buried above utilities, bedding sand so you can see the change in color, or how many other things sure do help, but you can just never assume anything is where someone says it is until you see it, and how you get to that point can be very interesting. As an operator, it can be very stressful, knowing what that bucket tooth will tear into or hook onto.
While a superintendent on a new 3500'-0" steel dual temp line from a co-generation plant to (5) 23 story buildings in Brooklyn NY, we worked around a lot of dangerous underground utilities. One afternoon while excavating for the new lateral or feed lines to one of the buildings, there was a 6" gas line in the excavation wall, and the cut was starting to collapse, every one of us nearby ( thinking back now) foolishly jumped in the support that line by hand until we could quickly get support under it, the line was some kind of steel, metal nothing that would flex, close call !
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