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Ohio worker's death highlights grim statistic

Trench collapse fatalities have more than doubled in last year

November 21, 2016

The death of a worker in a trench collapse in Ohio in June was, unfortunately, far from an isolated incident. The 33-year-old was one of 23 workers killed in 2016 – an alarming increase in trench-related fatalities since 2015. Twelve other workers were injured in trench cave-ins.

Trench collapse kills Pa. worker

March 31, 2016

Twenty-one-year-old Jacob Casher was still a "new guy" employed by a Beaver-based plumbing company when he left home for work in September 2015. He probably never imagined that, as he worked to install a sewer line 11-feet underground in Butler, it was to be the last day of his life.

OSHA: Meatpacking District fatality 'completely avoidable'

"Carlos Moncayo was a person, not a statistic"

October 13, 2015

Carlos Moncayo, a 22-year-old laborer from Queens, was trying to make a living as he worked on the construction of a Restoration Hardware store at 19 Ninth Ave. in Manhattan on April 6, 2015. Instead, his life ended that day when the 14-foot-deep trench in which he was working collapsed and buried him beneath tons of soil and debris.

Cave-in protection failures cited after excavation collapse in Missoula

OSHA cites two construction contractors for nine violations; penalties total more than $151K

September 28, 2015

A complaint that an employee had been partially buried when an excavation collapsed brought OSHA enforcement officers to a Glennco Excavating, Inc. construction site in Missoula, Montana.

NYC construction fatality leads to investigation of fraud

August 10, 2015

The recent death of a worker at a New York City construction site has prompted the city to form a taskforce to investigate misconduct and corruption in the construction industry, news sources are reporting.

SC contractor exposed workers to cave-in, struck-by hazards

April 15, 2015

South Carolina-based Jordan Construction Co. exposed workers at a Pooler, Georgia worksite to a variety of hazards, according to OSHA, which inspected the as part of its National Emphasis Program on Trenching and Excavation.

Two NJ landscape workers killed in trench collapse

OSHA finds lack of cave-in protection

April 7, 2015

Two workers killed in a trench cave-in Oct. 1, 2014 in Boonton, NJ died because the company had failed to provide cave-in protection, an OSHA inspection has found.

Penn. contractor again exposes workers to trenching hazards

October 31, 2014

Despite being cited by OSHA following a 2013 trench collapse, a follow-up inspection found that C & G Refrigeration Inc. of Hanover, Pennsylvania, was still exposing its employees to trenching hazards to potentially deadly trenching hazards while they performed underground utility work at a residence.

Mo. worker seriously injured in fall into 13’ deep trench

June 16, 2014

Gershenson Construction Co. Inc. has been cited by OSHA after a worker suffered a broken vertebra when he was struck by a partially suspended load of sewer pipe and knocked to the bottom of an unprotected 13-foot-deep trench.

Chicago engineering company cited for trenching hazards for second time in 2014

Pan-Oceanic Engineering Co. faces $147,000 in penalties

June 9, 2014

For the second time this year, OSHA has cited Pan-Oceanic Engineering Co. Inc. for failing to protect workers from trenching hazards at a job site at East 93rd Street and South Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago. OSHA cited the company for willful violations for again failing to protect workers from trench cave-ins while installing water and sewer lines in November 2013.