Sandhogs are urban miners who work on a variety of construction projects in New York City, particularly tunneling. There was one episode of the Box 13 radio show in which Dan Holiday is called in by the owner of a construction company to locate the source of the acts of sabotage that are threatening to ruin the project and company. On the Texaco Star Theater episode of 22 January 1941, Fred Allen interviewed an actual sandhog who had worked on the Holland Tunnel in New York. Needless to say, this particular occupation was fraught with many opportunities for accidents.
Sandhogs at work
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