When undertaking any sort of excavation work it is critical to avoid striking any underground services. This is not just to avoid damage to the services themselves, although that is important. Striking a telephone cable, for instance, could bring a whole area of business to a halt – unable to use the internet or deal with customers. An electricity cable could have the same effect on manufacturers.
If you are a contractor and are responsible for striking underground utilities, at the very least you will have men standing around idle doing nothing until the utility has sent a team out to carry out repairs. You may also suffer penalties in addition.
However, while that is bad enough, more important is the danger to life and limb. Striking electricity cables and gas pipes can have very serious consequences often resulting in severe injury to contractors, and on occasion can be fatal. There are around 60,000 underground utility strikes every year – and that is even with all the equipment that we have to help locate them.
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