Jason LaValley knows full well what the dangers are when installing large pipe systems. Several years ago he witnessed that danger firsthand when a massive pipe crushed the ankle of one of the men on his pipeline crew. He figured there had to be a safer way to move and place large-diameter pipe. His sketch turned into the DECKHAND from LaValley Industries.
“I grew up in the horizontal directional drilling industry and originally invented DECKHAND after witnessing one of my friends be injured on a job site while working as a human deckhand,” says LaValley, the company’s president and founder.
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