Excavator Appreciation Dinner & Award Ceremony

The candidates have been selected – Las Vegas Valley Water District, Southwest Gas, and AIMS Companies. Join us April 4 to find out which of the three will walk away with the Silver Shovel!

Registration is limited – Click here to reserve your spot at the April 4 Excavator Appreciation Dinner & Silver Shovel Award Ceremony!

The three Silver Shovel Candidates weren’t the only safe diggers in 2023. Find out here if your company made the zero at-fault damages list. Thank you to these excavators for making Nevada a safer place!

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2023 Silver Shovel Winner – Las Vegas Paving. Video courtesy of Underground Service Alert.

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There are miles upon miles of underground utilities buried across Nevada. Every day excavators dig into the ground for any number of residential or commercial construction projects and avoid hitting buried gas, electric, telecommunications, and water/wastewater pipes and cable.

These excavators follow safe digging practices outlined in Nevada Revised Statute 455, including calling 811 or submitting a “dig ticket” online at least two working days prior to an excavation to alert utilities of their intent to dig.

To thank excavators for using safe digging practices in their day-to-day work, the NRCGA hosts an annual excavator appreciation event in Southern Nevada.

The NRCGA’s Excavator Appreciation Dinner & Silver Shovel Award ceremony features a dinner, short presentations from damage prevention experts, lots of raffle prizes, and an award ceremony to present one excavator with the Silver Shovel.

  • 811 ticket data from Underground Service Alert is used to list excavators based on ticket volume.
  • Southern Nevada utility operators “scrub” the list to remove excavators who caused at-fault damages to underground utilities the previous calendar year.
  • The NRCGA’s Board of Directors conduct in-person interviews with the top 3 excavators.
  • The top excavator receives a life-size silver shovel to display at the office, as well as one paid trip to the Common Ground Alliance‘s annual Excavation Safety Conference & Expo.

To make sure your company is invited to this annual event, sign up to receive NRCGA email notifications.

For more information about the excavator appreciation or other NRCGA events, please contact us.