Question about map checks before starting a job

I always rushed through them to get to work faster. A coworker's story about digging in the wrong spot made me take them seriously now.

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3 Comments

jessica_cooper371mo ago

In city jobs, map checks aren't always key. Old records can be wrong, so trusting them too much causes problems. Sometimes local knowledge works better.

faith_carter1mo agoMost Upvoted

Seriously, how often do wrong maps actually cause a real mess? Most of the time someone fixes it before it gets bad. People make this sound way worse than it is.

grantmartinez28d ago

Totally agree with @jessica_cooper37 about old records being wrong. We hit a buried phone line last year because the city map was off by ten feet. The crew foreman actually knew about it from a job years back, so now we always ask the old timers on site before we dig.