Cudos to the Iowa Attorney General for following through and suing four businesses in Iowa who did excavating without notifying the "One Call" hotline. The purpose of the "One Call" hotline is to give utilities 48 hours prior notice before digging begins in any location so that underground hazards can be marked. Those hazards could range from gas, water and sewer lines to communications wiring like electric, phone or cable.
State law 8207 was created for the purpose of protecting the construction workers and the public from injury or death and it was ignored. Attorney General Tom Miller brought suit against those four businesses in district courts in four different counties in Iowa. The lawsuits allege that in all four cases gas or hazardous liquid lines were damaged or posed dangerous situations. The four District Court Justices levied penalties from $1000 to S10,000 on each of the businesses, and the lawsuits are pending. Hopefully the lawsuits, the penalties, and the bad publicity will correct future dangerous public safety behavior on the part of these businesses.
This article was found at http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/223-9-iowa-penalized-for-failure-to-comply-with-one-call-law8207
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