Accession Num: 2014.018.4099
Negative Code: S1333-36
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.