hooks and pulleys used on a project

Innovation Enabled by Partnership

November 2022 in UT Canyon Pipeline
hooks and pulleys used on a project

Project Overview

Canyon has been performing natural gas distribution work for their largest customer for 15 years, and their professional relationship has become one of the premier strategic partnerships between a utility and contractor in the industry.

Continuing to earn work doesn’t just happen on longevity alone, however. Safety, performance excellence, value, community engagement, and environmental stewardship all factor into our being the contractor of choice.

One area that sets Canyon apart is our quest for continuous improvement through innovation. Canyon takes pride in innovations to improve safety and has identified numerous opportunities to work safer and more efficiently.

The creation of the safety hook, for example, has improved safety when lowering pipe. When pipe is lowered into the ground, crews used to enter the trench to release the straps – a big safety risk. Now, crews can stand on the road and use the safety hook to release the straps.

Capabilities

Natural Gas

Other Safety Innovations

Project Innovation Partnership John Deere 210 Track Boom

Working with a legend in construction, Canyon helped develop the John Deere 210 Track Boom that gives a cab the ability to rotate side to side. Decreasing moves and turns eliminates risk, and it also reduces damage to the road.

Project Innovation Partnership Pipe Skid

Canyon created the pipe skid to avoid another big safety risk. The pipe skid eliminates crews from climbing onto flat-bed trailers to unload pipe to ground level.

Project Innovation Partnership Road Plates

Milling down one inch allows for a steel plate to lay flat on a road surface eliminating sound and possible damage to vehicles. Since Canyon developed this, it has been adopted as a standard practice around Utah.