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Getting involved with your local damage prevention committee can save lives
There are millions of miles of utility lines buried beneath the ground, and every nine minutes one of those underground lines is struck because someone decided to dig without first calling 811. The consequences of failing to call 811 before digging can result in fines, utility damages and potentially injury or loss of life.
August 8, 2018
Business
What to do when you find bones in the backyard
Hopefully you don't comes across any skeletal remains on a job site, but here's what you should do if you do. Read more here on Total Landscape Care!
May 23, 2017
Design-Build
Excavation Accident Kills Two Landscapers
Four landscape workers were excavating a 10-foot ditch for a drainage pipe outside of a home in Boonton Township, New Jersey. As they were working, the trench started to give way. One of the workers became trapped, and when another worker jumped in to save him, he also became trapped — under 10 feet of […]
October 7, 2014
Compact equipment
Machines that Add Power, Efficiency to Jobsites
From transporting equipment to cutting weeds and stumps, these new vehicles and machines bring power and efficiency to the jobsite.
March 20, 2014
Design-Build
Construction Crew Makes Prehistoric Discovery
Before you begin an excavation project, you mark utility lines, pipes or anything else underground that could cause issues. But have you ever checked a site for fossils? Contractors in Seattle removed the largest fossilized mammoth tusk ever discovered in that region from an apartment development jobsite, reports CNN. The tusk was 8 feet 6 […]
February 17, 2014
Business
Safety watch: Unsteady ground
How to prevent cave-ins while digging. The accident: A 29-year-old landscape worker and four other laborers are hand digging a 2-foot wide by 16-foot long trench on a private residence to investigate water infiltration.
June 7, 2013
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