OSHA has issued citations and penalties totaling $363,436 to two North Florida contractors for exposing workers to life-threatening excavation hazards. According to a recent release, inspectors on May ...

After 11 trench-related fatalities this year, OSHA is calling on employers to implement proven safeguards to prevent collapses and protect workers from deadly excavation hazards. Following a series of ...

POLICE RELEASE MORE DETAILS. JUST SEARCH KMBC FOR THE FREE DOWNLOAD KMBC NINE NEWS INVESTIGATION INTO A PUBLIC SAFETY HAZARD. A MASSIVE TRENCH DIVIDES TWO HOMES IN KANSAS CITY, LEAVING A NEIGHBOR ...

With construction projects, there are multiple risks to consider when on a jobsite. Let’s look at two of the most dangerous jobs—trenching and excavation. In 2022, 39 people died while doing trenching ...

When we discuss or train in the area of trench rescue operations, we often focus on complex equipment or difficult-to-interpret tabulated data regarding the dynamics of soil weights, soil pressures ...

An El Paso contractor could have prevented a 37-year-old employee from suffering fatal injuries in February by following federally required safety standards to avoid trench collapses, according to the ...

NEW CANAAN — An Easton contractor was in violation of several workplace safety regulations after an investigation into the death of an employee at a New Canaan work site, according to federal ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined an Ontario, Oregon-based company nearly $20,000 following the deaths of two men killed in a trench collapse in April. According to ...

Though he was pulled alive from a trench that collapsed, burying him, Trevor Kilgore has been haunted by the memory of those terrifying moments and troubled by nightmares and insomnia because, as his ...

A Rome Water & Sewer Division worker has died after a trench collapsed on Thursday night. Another worker has been hospitalized. City spokesman Doug Walker told Channel 2 Action News that a water and ...

ROME, Ga. (Atlanta News First/Gray News) - A water and sewer department worker has died after a trench collapsed late Thursday night in Georgia. Two workers were repairing a sewer line when the trench ...