abstract:Sandhog is the slang term given to urban miners, construction workers who work underground on a variety of excavation projects in New York City. Generally these projects involve tunneling, caisson excavation, road building, or some other type of underground construction or mining projects.
A subway construction worker, known as a "sandhog" exits thetunnelboring machine in the northbound tunnel ofthe SecondAvenuesubwayconstructionproject, Thursday, April7, 2011 in New York.