What is a quarry for besides just a big hole in the ground?
The funny answer to this question is that a quarry is just a big hole in the ground with valuable resources in it. 9. What type of safety precautions do you take? Some safety precautions are: workers use hard hats; there is also a horn to warn people in the quarry to evacuate for 1 minute until the blast; and quarry workers use gloves. 10. What are quarry workers called? Workers are called different things. There is the superintendant. The person who is in charge of crushing stones is called the Crusher Operator, and so on. 11. How do you make the quarry? The way quarry workers make the quarry is blasting parts of the ground, digging all of the stones out of it and then they blast it again, and so on. 12. What happens if you dig too far? If the workers dug too far into the ground, then they would hit water. To hit water they would need to dig to about 50 to 100 feet.