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Steam Shovel (1917)

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Before occupational health and safety, this is how excavation was done. A steam shovel is digging a tunnel for the SF Muni, c. 1917.

This movie is part of the collection: Shaping San Francisco

Production Company: Prelinger Archive
Sponsor: Shaping San Francisco
Audio/Visual: silent, b/w
Keywords: steam shovel; digging tunnels; excavation
Contact Information: www.shapingsf.org

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

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Reviewer: Spuzz - - May 18, 2008
Subject: Well yeah...
Steam shovel. Not really much. Doesnt really go into worker safety. Just the shovel.