Ernie Romero is the owner of Horizontal Boring, based in Phoenix. Romero’s company had to use its emergency plan at a job site a number of years ago, and he says every construction company needs to have one and make sure their employees know it.
If your crew member was pressure testing a pipe when suddenly the plug was blown out and that worker was thrown from the ladder and became pinned inside a manhole, would you know what to do?
For the crew at Horizontal Boring, that’s not a hypothetical scenario. It happened to...
