Published: June 04, 2008 10:26 am         

Pipeline safety meeting set for June 26

The Pipeline Group’s annual “Public Education – Excavator Awareness Program” will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 26, at the Attala County Coliseum in Kosciusko.

The program will be sponsored by a group of companies with a common goal of preventing accidents and damages to underground pipelines and utilities.

A free dinner will be catered by Harris Catering for all persons involved in the excavation-related activities.

Following dinner, a brief safety meeting will be presented which stresses the importance of accident prevention by identifying pipeline and utility right of way, use of one-call systems, and the importance of working with pipeline and utility companies to safely excavate in the vicinity of underground facilities.

Sponsors will provide promotional materials, including notification information for their companies, safety related brochures and other safety reminders.

Each year many lives are injured or lost, plus millions of dollars in repairs and lost products are incurred due to “third party” incidents – someone digging into a pipeline.

Thousands of communications, some life-threatening, may be disrupted when expensive fiber-optic cables are damaged or severed.

Presentation brought to you on behalf of Atmos Energy, Gulf South Pipeline Company LP, Shell Pipeline Company LP, Southern Natural Gas Company, Texas Eastern Transmission LP.

For more information, call (877) 933-7370 or online at www.pipelinegroup.com