If you need more evidence that hydroexcavation is safer than traditional forms of digging, look at the news coming out of California on April 17.Crews using heavy equipment apparently hit a 12-inch Pacific Gas & Electric pipeline carrying natural gas, which triggered an explosion that closed a major highway in California and injured at least 11, three of them critically.A Fresno County equipment operator was working with a crew of jail inmates to expand the sheriff’s department’s gun range alongside Highway 99 when flames shot up well over 100 feet in the air.According to the Associated Press, the front-loader operator
