Pre-excavation utility verification checklist
A one-page printable checklist for site leads, foremen, and ground-truth locators. Pull the 811 ticket, walk the marks, brief the crew, sign it off — the on-site checks to run before equipment enters the ground.
- 811 ticket pulled at least 3 business days ahead of excavation
- All member utilities acknowledged: water, gas, electric, sewer, telecom
- Private-side utilities identified beyond the 811 footprint
- Tolerance zone, hand-dig policy, and stop-work authority briefed at tailgate
One sheet. Ten checks. A sign-off block.
The PDF is intentionally thin — designed to be walked, not read. Every entry throws the question a field lead should answer out loud before the bucket comes down.
Single sheet, landscape-friendly — drops into a clipboard and reads at arm’s length on the tailgate.
Ten on-site checks plus a sign-off block: crew lead, supervisor, ticket number, the date — the four things an investigator later wants to read first.
One email field — that is it. No phone, no company size, no card. You get the PDF; we send field-relevant updates only when there is something genuinely worth sending.