The ground you walk, drive and play on every day, hides an incredible amount of buried utilities and pipelines. In fact, there are estimated over 20 million miles of underground utilities and 2.6 million miles of transmission, distribution and gathering pipelines, in the United States. That figure equates to more than one football field’s length of buried utilities for every man, woman and child in the U.S.

Pipelines are by far the safest method for transporting energy products. However, when pipeline incidents occur they can present significant risks to the public and the environment.

Pipelines include large diameter lines carrying energy products to population centers, as well as small diameter lines that deliver natural gas to businesses and households in your neighborhood. The energy products carried in pipelines fuel our lives and our livelihoods. They heat our homes and schools, power our industrial bases and enable our daily commutes.

Considering all this information we can safely state that digging is dangerous and can result in damage to gas, electric, communication, water and sewer lines, which in turn can lead to cutting communities off from critical infrastructure, serious injuries, environmental damage, property damage, and costly repairs and project delays.

In the USA alone, an underground utility line is damaged once every six minutes because someone decided to dig.

It is why it makes a good sense to install Underground Cable Covers, which provide warning and protection for a wide range of utility and pipeline applications and serve as a last line of defense against accidental damages caused by digging.

When installed above a cable or pipe the Underground Cable Cover serves as an early visual warning due to its bright color and most of all it provides mechanical safety barrier for a third party excavating in the immediate vicinity.