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To help promote safe digging you can order the following items. To do so please contact Maria Copeland at 770.476.6035 or Click Here to email her and request the item and quantity you need.

 

"Call Before You Dig" Bumper Stickers "Call Before You Dig" Bumper Stickers
Available in black or white . Size: 9" x 3"
FREE

Stickers - 2" x 3 " Stickers - 2" x 3 "
Small stickers with Dig Safely, UPC name and phone number. Some use this on fiber markers in the field, others use them for permits.
FREE

"Call Before You Dig" License Plate
Perfect for ALL your fleet vehicles.
FREE

Homeowner Brochure Homeowner Brochure
This trifold brochure is designed to help homeowners understand the importance of Calling before They Dig. And it helps them know what to do AFTER the call. Size: 3.75" x 9" (folds out to poster 7.5" x 18")
FREE

"Call Before You Dig" Brochure
Small size. Trifold, white pamphet in both English and Spanish that describes the one call process. Size: 3.75" x 9" (folds out to poster 7.5" x 18")
FREE

"Call Before You Dig" Poster "Call Before You Dig" Poster
Perfect reminder for employees in your office.
FREE

"Call Before You Dig" Bill Stuffers
Bill insert for companies to include with their billables - directed to the homeowner. Size: 6.1" x 3.6"
FREE

POPs POPs
Stand up Point of Presence display for utility companies to put up where customers pay bills, locations where permitting is necessary and at Tool Rental companies. Has two slots - one for color code cards and one for an English/Spanish tri-fold educational pamphlet
FREE

Updated POP Decal Updated POP Decal
Update your existing POP with this decal.
FREE

Color Code Cards Color Code Cards
APWA color code cards with Positive Response contact info on back. Available in English and Spanish versions.
FREE

Excavator Manual Excavator Manual
One side english, flip it over and the other side is Spanish. Great educational tool for contractors to use in order to help dig properly and follow steps required by law.
FREE

Traffic Control Manual Traffic Control Manual
When used in conjunction with the MUTCD, this item helps contractors use cones, flaggers and lane closures correctly. Download Order form here.
$4.00

 

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 Maria Copeland at 770-476-6035 or e-mail mcopeland@Georgia811.com.

 

You may also use the video loan form.

 

The Other Side of the Fence The Other Side of the Fence (VHS)
Distributor: Arkansas One Call
Follow a locate technician through an average day in the utility locating world.

Pipe and Cable Locators Pipe and Cable Locators (VHS)
Distributor: Radiodetection (April 1996)
Digging Dangers 12, Tragic Encounters Digging Dangers 12, Tragic Encounters (VHS)
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 13, Digger's Nightmare Digging Dangers 13, Digger's Nightmare (VHS)
Closed-captioned in Spanish (VHS)

Distributor: Underground Focus
Digging Dangers 13 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.

Digging Dangers 14, Underground Traps Digging Dangers 14, Underground Traps (VHS)
Distributor: Underground Focus
Digging Dangers 14 features excavation accidents which occurred during 2002 in Tennessee, Colorado, California, Oklahoma, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Canada. Included is an accident near Edmonton, Alberta, where an elderly couple were killed in a gas explosion after the man drove a steel stake through his home's gas service line while building a retaining wall. A 1997 Indianapolis IN accident is revisited, which involved a 20-inch gas pipeline that damaged by a directional bore. One person was killed and 80 homes either destroyed or damaged when the escaping gas ignited. The fire footage is spectacular.

Digging Dangers 15, Digger Nightmares Continued Digging Dangers 15, Digger Nightmares Continued (VHS & DVD)
Accidents occurring during 2003 are covered by DD video-Digging Dangers 15, Digger Nightmares continued. These accidents happened in Massachusetts, Ontario, Indiana, Georgia, New Mexico, Delaware and California. The worst accident depicted killed seven people when a strip mall in Toronto was leveled by a gas explosion after the mall's unmarked service line was damaged by an excavator. This new 15-minute video also revisits a 1998 accident in Attleboro MA. The families of two city workers killed in a gas explosion there received the highest cash settlement in Massachusetts history. The objective of the Digging Dangers videos is to raise awareness of what is happening, so that viewers can take steps to keep it from happening to them.
Digging Dangers 16, Excavation Tragedies Digging Dangers 16, Excavation Tragedies (VHS & DVD)
This video covers some of the worst excavation accidents of 2004. Viewers see an on-the-scene portrayal of a backhoe hit on a jet fuel line in Walnut Creek CA that killed five workers. This 20-minute video also covers a Belgium pipeline explosion that killed 24 and injured 100, a gas pipeline explosion near Madrid IA, two Dallas TX firefighters overcome by gas while responding to pipeline damage, an Evansville IN gas explosion that killed two, a water main hit that flooded streets in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, a gas explosion in Hammond IN, a worker injured by gas explosion near Detroit, a Philadelphia gas main inferno that made national news, and two homes destroyed in a gas explosion in Fairfax, OK. The video also revisits the 2003 gas explosion that killed seven in Toronto. The son of one of the victims appears on camera to give his personal account of the accident and its aftermath.
Digging Dangers 17, BOOM! Digging Dangers 17, BOOM! (VHS)
Available in Spanish

Digging Dangers 17 BOOM! underlines the importance of safety when dealing with the aftermath of underground utility damages. We highlight excavation accidents occurring from late 2004 through the end of 2005. These accidents will help construction workers, utility personnel and first-responders understand the firsthand effect of not following safety precautions, particularly when faced with leaking gas.

Digging Dangers 18, Disaster Prevention Digging Dangers 18, Disaster Prevention (DVD)
This video features accidents from the last four months of 2005 and the first seven months of 2006. Discussion covers the difference between preventing damage and preventing a disaster. Learn how the response to an accident can cause resolution or havoc. This video stresses the importance of a well planned and orchestrated response to a digging accident.
Digging Dangers 19, Judgment Day Digging Dangers 19, Judgment Day (DVD)
Digging Dangers 19 features excavation accidents from 2007. This video explores the issue of the responsibilities all stakeholders share during excavation and how those responsibilities relate to business ethics.
Digging Dangers 20, Failure to Digging Dangers 20, Failure to... (DVD)
"Failure to....." features excavation accidents from 2008.
Fatal gas explosion captured on video in Pueblo, CO
An blow-by-blow account of a gas explosion in Oconomowoc, WI
A boring job gone wrong results in deaths in McKinney, TX
A fatal explosion in 2008 in Plum Grove, PA was caused by damage to the gas main in 2003.

Digging Dangers 21, Sliver of Darkness Digging Dangers 21, Sliver of Darkness (DVD)
Digging Dangers 21 features excavation accidents from 2010, including one caused by a crossbore. Accidents include Cleburne, TX, Darrouzett, TX, Thomson, GA, Columbia Falls, MT, Edina, MN and more.
Digging Dangers 22, Like You Were There Digging Dangers 22, Like You Were There (DVD)
Digging Dangers 22 features accidents from Virgina Beach, VA, Milton, Ontario, Milton, GA and Park Forest, IL. This installment of Digging Dangers will leave you feeling "Like You Were There."
Digging Dangers 23, The Seven Deadly Sins Digging Dangers 23, The Seven Deadly Sins (DVD) English and Flip side Spanish
"The Seven Deadly Sins" features the following excavation accidents from 2011 and 2012:
- Topeka, KS - 1/30/2011
- Windsor, Ontario, CA - 3/23/2011
- West Haverstraw, NY - 1/16/2012
- Hinton, IA - 4/25/2012
- La Motte, IA - 4/27/2012

Contains interview with a utility superintendent whose sewer lateral was damaged by directional boring which led to H2S poisoning. In addition, a first hand account of the West Haverstraw, NY accident, taken at the scene.

Dig Safely Dig Safely "It's where Safe Digging Starts" (VHS)
Distributor: Common Ground Alliiance
Spanish.

Seeing is Believing: Safely Exposing Buried Utilities Seeing is Believing: Safely Exposing Buried Utilities (VHS & DVD)
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 Best Effort! Locating: the Art of Utility Locating (DVD)
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.

Safety Awareness 3-pack Safety Awareness 3-pack (DVD)
Distributor: Common Ground Alliance
5 Red's 5-Steps to Safer Digging - Entertaining and light approach to safety awareness for various audiences (Running Time 12 min, 30 sec) , Call 811 for Kids- Ideal for kids 8 to 11, this pirate adventure shares the basics of calling 811 (Running Time 7 min) and 5-Steps to Safer Digging Toolbox- Informative and engaging safety awareness for professional excavators (Running Time 9 min, 40 sec).

Cliff Meidl Cliff Meidl, Safe Digging Lessons Learned: (DVD)
Distributor: Georgia 811
"On November 19th, 1998, it was a chilly morning and a typical workday for me..." And so began the day that would change Cliff Meidl's life forever, the day he nearly lost his life on an excavation site. Cliff's story of recovery and perseverance following the tragic accident is truly inspiring, from simply learning to walk again, to beating the odds and making the U.S. Olympic Team- twice. It is an important reminder to us all, that accidents can happen to anyone.

Dedication to the goal of safe digging is a shared responsibility...between the excavator, the locator, the facility operators, and the 811 communication centers that connect them (Running Time 9 min, 45 sec).

Work Safely Around Power Lines Work Safely Around Power Lines, Contractor Beware: (DVD)
Distributor: Culver Media, LLC
Grade 9-adult
This video thoroughly covers the range of key safety behaviors that contractors need to apply when working near overhead or underground electric power lines. Well-tested, it's proven to convey concepts in a way that successfully motivates contractors to take action. Content supports the OSHA Cranes and Derricks in Construction Rule. Crystal-clear photos show what to do and simply worded instructions increase understanding. This video is a trusted standard used by many utilities across North America (Running Time 15 minutes). This video also features Cliff Meidl's accident.