Working near Kinder Morgan pipelines
Safety Checklist (Canada)

1. Plan your activity — identify the precise location of your work; check records for evidence of pipeline easements or other buried facilities.
2. Visit the site and look for pipeline warning signs or pipeline marker posts.
3. Contact Kinder Morgan and obtain a copy of the guidelines for ground disturbances.
4. Obtain Kinder Morgan’s written approval for the crossing, if required.
5. Make a locate request (by calling the one-call centre where a one-call centre exists or by calling Kinder Morgan where there is no one-call centre) to have the pipeline located.
6. Be on site when the pipe is located and know the meaning of the pipeline markers.
7. Give three working days notice to Kinder Morgan before beginning work.
8. Hand expose the pipe prior to any ground disturbance using powered equipment within five metres/15 feet of the pipe in the presence of a Pipeline Protection Inspector.
9. Notify the Kinder Morgan one working day before backfilling over the pipe.
10. IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE KINDER MORGAN IF YOU COME IN TO CONTACT WITH THE PIPE.
11. ALWAYS follow the instructions of a Pipeline Protection Inspector.

Call before you dig! 

Call your local Canadian ONE CALL organization to find out what is buried below your site at no cost to you:
 
British Columbia   (800) 474-6886
Alberta   (800) 242-3447
Saskatchewan   (866) 828-4888

In the U.S., call 811 before you dig