Pittsburgh Excavation

About Pittsburgh Excavation

Three in the morning in the Strip District is orange lamplight, snow falling steady between the produce docks, and a blade dropping onto wet asphalt. Pittsburgh Excavation runs the storm shift so a lot is bare and salted before the first car of the day turns in off Smallman. Plowing, clearing drives and lots, de-icing, walkways opened, and pushing the piles back or hauling them off once the banks get too tall to see around. The measure of a night like that is simple: somebody arrives at six, parks without thinking, and never learns how much snow was there. Downtown, the Strip, the North Shore and Uptown — that quiet is the entire point of the work.