Congratulations to Pipeline Supplies and Hire (PSAH Pty Ltd) on their Verification of Competency (VOC) program which was put into action at a jobsite in Speewa, a small rural community in Victoria, Australia.
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TracStar 900
Great Lakes keeps fusion in the family
Bryan Marks started working when he was only 8 years old. His job was to pick up the loose trash that had blown off the Venice Park Landfill his family owned in Lennon, Michigan. By the time he was 10, he was running bulldozers, loaders and off-road trucks.
Read MoreLondon’s antiquated gas mains being replaced with modern piping system
In 1985, a fractured 6” cast iron gas main exploded on a block of three-story luxury flats in Putney, a London suburb, killing eight people and trapping dozens in the rubble. The tragedy led to a government safety inquiry which determined that the break occurred due to vertical loading stresses, most likely from the heavy vehicles that serviced the building.
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Gordon Thomson shares this photo of a TracStar® 900 that was used on a 630mm polyethylene gas main replacement job in the heart of historic Edinburgh, Scotland.
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