SaskEnergy’s Safe Digging Excellence Award celebrates organizations committed to safe digging and community safety.
F. Peters Excavating has received SaskEnergy’s Safe Digging Excellence Award for its long-standing commitment to protecting people and underground infrastructure.
The Saskatoon company has been providing earthwork, grading, demolition and snow removal services since 1956.
“At the beginning of the year, we have a spring startup meeting and it lays the groundwork for our year and our safety,” said Matt Cameron, President and General Manager of F. Peters Excavating. “We daylight every line that is in our area of excavation. We want to make sure we know exactly where the lines are before we start our work.”
Companies that follow safe digging practices help to prevent injuries, avoid damage to property and underground infrastructure, and keep their projects moving without delay. SaskEnergy, with close to 88,000 kilometres of natural gas lines throughout the province, relies on these practices to maintain the safety and reliability of its system and meet the energy needs of more than 415,000 homes and businesses.
“Safe digging is essential to reducing incidents and protecting people and infrastructure across the province,” said Kevin Adair, Executive Vice President, Customer Service Operations for SaskEnergy. “SaskEnergy is proud to recognize companies like F. Peters Excavating for demonstrating how a strong safety culture translates into safer worksites and better outcomes for communities.”
Now in the second year of its Safe Digging Excellence Award, SaskEnergy is once again honouring three Saskatchewan businesses in the excavating industry. Each business completed at least 25 line locate requests annually over the past three years and had no contacts with natural gas infrastructure.
F. Peters Excavating was presented with its award at the Dig Safe breakfast in Saskatoon on April 21, 2026. Fedorowich Construction Limited was announced as a SaskEnergy Safe Digging Excellence Award winner on April 8 in Yorkton, and the final award recipient will be announced on April 23 in Weyburn.
For more than 30 years, the Saskatchewan Common Ground Alliance (SCGA) has hosted Dig Safe breakfasts in communities throughout the province. The breakfasts are held throughout April, which is Dig Safe month and the unofficial start of the spring digging season.
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