Paying attention to what you are doing and making sure you know what is belowground where you are working will not only save your company money and extra work — it could save lives, too.Locating water, power, fiber optic and other lines before digging seems like plain common sense. And yet, statistics from a 2012 OSHA report showed that every three minutes a utility line was damaged by excavation. The federal statistics also showed that more than a third (34.1 percent) of all serious pipeline incidents between 1991 and 2010 resulted from excavation damage.Calling in hydro- or air-excavation equipment to

















