Downtime – Reports from Excavators
We already looked at downtime in the natural gas versus telecommunications comparison. Here we take a closer look based only on the excavator-as-source subset of data. Because the number of non-blank entries for some of these questions becomes much smaller, in order to minimize further compression of the dataset we will use total number of damages, as opposed to unique damages. The percentage calculations change only very slightly.
Table 14—“Did the excavator incur downtime?” answers for all reports from excavators
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How Often Downtime Question is Answered - All Damage Reports from Excavators
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Downtime
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Damage Reports
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% of Total-All
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% of Total-Known
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Blank
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26,960
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38.32%
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Yes
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26,695
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23.70%
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61.57%
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No
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16,660
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37.98%
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38.43%
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In the natural gas-versus-telecommunications comparison, telecommunications had higher numbers of reports with downtime indicated. When focusing on those two facilities damaged within this excavator dataset, it is evident why that occurs.
Table 15 shows a subset of Table 14, with natural gas as the facility damaged.
Table 15—“Did the excavator incur downtime?” answers for natural gas damage reports from excavators
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How Often Downtime Question is Answered - Natural Gas Damages from Excavators
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Downtime
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Damage Reports
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% of Total-All
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% of Total-Known
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Blank
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4,865
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39.99%
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Yes
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5,210
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42.82%
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71.35%
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No
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2,092
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17.19%
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28.65%
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Table 16 shows a similar subset for telecommunications/cable TV as the damaged facility.
Table 16—“Did the excavator incur downtime?” answers for telecom damage reports from excavators
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How Often Downtime Question is Answered -Telecom Damages from Excavators
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Downtime
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Damage Reports
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% of Total-All
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% of Total-Known
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Blank
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14,646
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39.41%
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Yes
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12,640
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34.01%
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56.13%
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No
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9,881
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26.59%
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43.87%
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For both natural gas and telecommunications, the percentage of blank responses to this question are about the same, but the total number of telecommunications damage reports is about three times that of natural gas.