Fatal trench collapse earns Pa. company ‘severe violator’ status
Susquehanna Supply Company Inc. has an extensive OSHA history of violations
An employee working on the outside of a bridge abutment in a 12-15’ trench in Millville, Pennsylvania died when the adjacent trench wall collapsed, burying him in soil. The worker was in the trench shoveling soil off the base of the abutment wall because it was not reachable by an excavator.
The victim’s employer, Susquehanna Supply Company Inc., of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, is bridge repair and construction company that was contracted by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to rehabilitate a small steel-frame bridge over a creek.