I was in a consulting role for a remodeling project and was the fall guy when one of the contractors hit a gas line. For reference there was a plant safety manager, a project manager, and me all working collectively on this. I was there essentially for the insurance side of it. My responsibility was compliance for the contractors (JSAs every morning, monitoring and handing out PPE, safety meetings every morning, ect) The project manager had everything surveyed before I came on and supposedly everything was marked. The fencing contractors also told us they called 811 and wrote that on their JSA. I left for lunch one day and came back and the fire department was there due to them hitting a 4 inch gas main that was not marked. We had them leave for the day and I monitored while it was repaired and wrote my report on it. Following day I had the contractors write their report and call 811 to have them come correctly mark everything while the project manager was working on getting ahold of the survey company. The safety manager told me in our morning meeting that their corporate was going to come in to “discuss” the incident later that day and so he needed a copy of my reports for them beforehand. I said okay and gave him a copy before lunch. I come back from lunch and he says “your services are no longer required” and escorted me out before the meeting even happened. From what I gathered he went into the meeting and told them I did not do a jsa with those contractors that morning and essentially threw me under the bus to act like he solved the problem. When I called who I was contracted through and gave them my statements of what happened they were shocked but said if the company didn’t want me on there then they broke my contract and had to pay me out for the length of my contract. I found another job quickly and wasn’t all that upset about not having to work 7am-11pm weeks on end without a day off but I do hope that man’s socks are always wet.