Video Library
We have a variety of videos that are both instructional and informative for locaters, contractors, excavators and their crews. They are free of charge, so we encourage you to request and share these videos with your people. To order, call Holly Files at 770-623-4332 Ext 504 or e-mail hfiles@gaupc.com.
Pipe and Cable Locators
(CD ROM VERSION AVAILABLE)
Distributor: Radiodetection (April 1996)
The Other Side of the Fence
Distributor: Arkansas One Call
Follow a locate technician through an average day in the utility locating world.
A Bright Arc…A Video guide to Powerline Safety
Distributor: Workers' Compensation Board
Deals with the dangers of working near overhead and underground power lines. It shows, through dramatic footage and computer animation, what can happen if you or someone on your job site accidentally contacts an energized power line.
Digging Dangers Series
Digging Dangers III, Anatomy of an Accident
Distributor: Underground Focus
Described by many viewers as the best safety video they've ever seen. This tape features a contractor whose crew was involved in an accident that killed three people. His insights are incredible.
Digging Dangers IV, Accident Avalanche
Distributor: Underground Focus
Dramatizes the magnitude of the incredible number of accidents involving damage to underground lines by excavators. Stimulates discussions.
Digging Dangers V, Taking the Offensive Underground Focus
Distributor: Underground Focus
This 15-minute video gives excavators steps they can take to avoid damaging underground lines. It specifically focuses on what excavators should do when digging around marked lines.
Digging Dangers VI, Underground Lines Above Ground Disasters
Distributor: Underground Focus
This 15-minute video features the Edison NJ and Allentown PA pipeline accidents that sparked Congressional pipeline safety action. Accidents in Madison NE and Green River WY are also covered. Diagrams are used to help viewers see exactly what caused the accidents and how they could have been avoided.
Digging Dangers VII, Hits and Misses
Distributor: Underground Focus
A directional boring accident that damaged or destroyed 86 homes in Westminster MD is covered in this 15-minute video. Also covered is a major phone cable cut in Odessa TX and a sewer collapse in Minnetonka MN. New technology to help excavate more safely is presented in the form of a soft trencher vacuum excavator that is faster than a backhoe in some applications. Better understanding of the capabilities and limitations of locating instruments is another benefit of this video.
Digging Dangers IX, Fire, Water & Fiber
Distributor: Underground Focus
The infamous Indianapolis gas explosion that damaged 80 homes, destroyed six and killed one resident is depicted at length, including aftermath scenes of the damaged pipe. DDIX also contains an on-camera gas explosion and two major fiber optic cable cuts. A New York City water main rupture that washed away a curb-to-curb section of Fifth Avenue is also shown. This 8-minute video also depicts a power cable cut that blacked out the offices of Underground Focus magazine.
Digging Dangers X, Deadly Surprise
Distributor: Underground Focus
This fast paced 8-minute video covers 12 accidents involving excavator damage to underground lines within a 12-month period. Included are gas explosions in Massachusetts, Minnesota and Texas that killed eight people and injured dozens. Most of the fatalities were utility workers, but one was a daycare provider and another was an equipment operator. Others were private citizens who just happened to be nearby when the explosions occurred. These, and other accidents including one in Chicago that burned a 15-story building, are resulting in legislative activity in several states. DDX also contains a water incident where millions of gallons gushing from a transmission main flooded a Philadelphia neighborhood.
Digging Dangers XI, Hidden Hazards
Distributor: Underground Focus
This video covers some of the worst accidents of 1999, including the Bridgeport AL gas explosion that killed three, a power cable hit in Philadelphia that killed two, and a gasoline fire in Bellingham WA that killed three. Also depicted is a Long Island cable cut that affected over 300,000 phone users. In all, 14 accidents are shown.
Digging Dangers XII, Tragic Encounters
Distributor: Underground Focus
This video features nine year 2000 accidents that happened in Texas, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, California, Missouri, Minnesota, Florida, Washington DC, Tennessee, and Virginia. The New Mexico Accident killed 12 people and was labeled as the worst pipeline accident in many years. A cable cut in Minnesota affected Northwest Airlines flights around the world. In Texas, a policeman driving home from work died when his car ignited a cloud of propane gas drifting across a highway after a bulldozer damaged a pipeline.
Digging Dangers IX, Fire, Water & Fiber
Distributor: Underground Focus
Closed-captioned in Spanish
The infamous Indianapolis gas explosion that damaged 80 homes, destroyed six and killed one resident is depicted at length, including aftermath scenes of the damaged pipe. DDIX also contains an on-camera gas explosion and two major fiber optic cable cuts. A New York City water main rupture that washed away a curb-to-curb section of Fifth Avenue is also shown. This 8-minute video also depicts a power cable cut that blacked out the offices of Underground Focus magazine.
Digging Dangers VIII, Digger’s Nightmare
Distributor: Underground Focus
Closed-captioned in Spanish
Digging Dangers XIII features accidents that happened in 2001 in Michigan, Colorado, Missouri, North Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey, and Nevada. Included is a North Carolina accident where a 23-year-old worker was killed when his auger hit a gas main. The 1999 Bellingham WA tragedy is revisited with an update of legal action resulting from the accident.
Dig Safely “It’s where Safe Digging Starts”
Distributor: Common Ground Alliiance
Spanish.
Seeing is Believing: Safely Exposing Buried Utilities
Distributor: Underground Focus
Damage prevention isn't over when utilities are marked. Knowing the colors and meaning of utility markers is only part of the answer to safe, damage-free digging. This video has 29 minutes of quality instruction.
Best Effort! Locating: the Art of Utility Locating
Distributor: Underground Focus
This video addressees the old cliché, "Locating is an art, not a science." Our aim: 1) Provide visual insight to the factors that support the cliché, and 2) offer advice to the user of the locating instrument when these factors arise. In one sense, we are trying to help folks "see" the reason for hand-dig, tolerance zones. Additionally, we offer information for the instrument user to identify and, perhaps, overcome these factors. 20 minutes.