drilling, driving-in, grading, plowing-in, pulling-in, ripping,
scraping, trenching and tunneling. The term does not include
soft excavation technology such as vacuum, high pressure air or
water, tilling of soil for agricultural purposes or for general
yard or garden purposes to a depth of less than eighteen inches,
performing minor routine maintenance up to a depth of less than
eighteen inches measured from the top of the edge of the cartway
or the top of the outer edge of an improved shoulder, in
addition to the performance of incidental de minimis excavation
associated with the routine maintenance and the removal of
sediment buildup, within the right-of-way of public roads or
work up to a depth of twenty-four inches beneath the existing
surface within the right-of-way of a State highway, work
performed by persons whose activities must comply with the
requirements of and regulations promulgated under the act of May
31, 1945 (P.L.1198, No.418), known as the Surface Mining
Conservation and Reclamation Act, the act of April 27, 1966 (1st
Sp.Sess., P.L.31, No.1), known as The Bituminous Mine Subsidence
and Land Conservation Act, or the act of September 24, 1968
(P.L.1040, No.318), known as the Coal Refuse Disposal Control
Act, that relate to the protection of utility facilities or the
direct operations on a well pad following construction of the
well pad and that are necessary or operations incidental to the
extraction of oil or natural gas.
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["Horizontal directional drilling" means the use of
horizontal boring devices that can be guided between a launch
point and a reception point beneath the earth's surface.]
"Injury" means a bodily harm to a person, who, as a result of
the bodily harm, immediately receives medical attention at a
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