2014.018.4090 Nakusp men escape from slide

Accession Num: 2014.018.4090

Negative Code: S1333-27

Extent:

Document Date: 1978-03-28 - --

Donors: Denis Stanley

Creators: Denis Stanley

Keywords: 1970s, drill, Galena Contractors, Hot Springs Road, Hot Springs Road slide (1978), landslide/rockslide, and Pigott; Fred

Locations: Nakusp

Physical Description:
1 b/w negative (35 mm)

Notes:
Galena Contractors' 22-ton rock drilling machine operated by Fred Pigott partially buried in gravel after a slide from a gravel pit near Dinner Creek fell onto Hot Springs Road as Pigott and truck driver Ed Bordula were driving to a work site, 28 March 1978. The operators were unharmed.

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