by Kodiak Drilling | Jun 22, 2012 | Utility Locates
Locates Cartoon If you read Drill Bits magazine or saw our previous article about Chuck Rench and Kelly Barr, you are familiar with the characters presented by the National Drilling Association (NDA) promoting safe drilling practices. Based on our suggestion, the NDA...
by Kodiak Drilling | Dec 20, 2011 | News, Utility Locates
Charged and Convicted From the legal files, we have a recent conviction and some new charges: Convicted October 2011 – An Employer and supervisor pleaded guilty to a charge under section 228(1)(a) of Ontario Regulation 213/91 resulting in fines of $20,000 and...
by Kodiak Drilling | Dec 20, 2011 | Utility Locates
TSSA Guidelines for Excavations The TSSA document “Guidelines For Excavations In The Vicinity of Gas Lines” November 2004 has recently been updated. For the update, TSSA worked with the Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) to produce a new document to harmonize the...
by Kodiak Drilling | Dec 20, 2011 | News, Utility Locates
Over $1 million Fines In a previous post, we indicated that a new trial had been ordered for Enbridge in the Bloor Street explosion. For those who have forgotten, this was an explosion that leveled a building and killed 7 people because the utility locates were not...
by Kodiak Drilling | Dec 20, 2011 | Utility Locates
Burnaby Oil Pipeline It is not likely that people remember the news specifically from July 24, 2007, but anyone involved in drilling work surely had shivers going down their spine watching the news clips of the Burnaby neighbourhood covered in a thick layer of 234,000...
