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 one of its workers, and thankfully they knew exactly how to handle the situation.
“They had to execute the emergency action plan to remove the injured employee from the manhole, bring him up to safety, get the ambulance and safety manager on site and assess the injury,” says Ernie Romero, owner
