You’re using your directional drill when suddenly you slice through a gas line. Gas could be leaking into the apartment building nearby. What do you do?Accidents like this can, and do, happen more often than you think. In December 2016, a restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, exploded after a directional drill operator struck a gas line.Thankfully everyone evacuated when they smelled gas and no one was seriously injured.Other kinds of accidents happen, too. In January, a hydroexcavator fell into a sinkhole after the operator parked where a culvert had deteriorated. The ground gave out and the truck fell into the 20-foot-deep
