OSHA: A trench can collapse "in a matter of seconds"
Employees of a Georgia contractor who were installing water and sewer lines had no safe means to enter and exit the excavation in which they were working, nor did the trench have a protective cave-in system.
Those were among the excavation hazards OSHA investigators found at a Corley Contractors, Inc. worksite in Acworth, Georgia. The Dallas, Georgia-based company - which operates as C&L Contractors - faces $106,078 in penalties.