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OSHA cites employer – involved in 2021 double fatality in downtown Boston – for new trench violations at East Boston worksite

February 16, 2022

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the employer involved in a February 2021 double fatality at a downtown Boston worksite and his successor company again for failing to provide employees with essential and required safeguards, this time at an East Boston residential construction site.

OSHA makes reducing trenching deaths a top priority

March 5, 2018

An alarming leap in excavation and trench-related fatalities has made reducing them an Agency Priority Goal for OSHA for 2018. The agency plans to accomplish this by increasing awareness of trenching hazards in construction, educating employers and workers on safe cave-in prevention solutions, and decreasing the number of trench collapses.

Texas worker killed in trench collapse

March 13, 2017

A trench collapse in San Antonio, Texas last week killed a worker and endangered crews and co-workers who were trying to save him.

Workers exposed to trenching hazards at NJ construction site

Contractor faces $197K in fines

February 24, 2017

Acting on a complaint in June 2016, OSHA found employees of one of the Verona, New Jersey area's largest general contractors working in an unprotected 10-foot deep excavation at a suburban New Jersey high school, in violation of federal safety and health laws. OSHA announced today it has issued citations for nine violations - one willful and eight serious - to The Landtek Group Inc., a New York-based general contractor that specializes in sports facility design and construction. The company faces $197,752 in fines as a result.

Worker suffers severe injuries in trench cave-in

January 16, 2017

OSHA has cited a Sioux Falls, South Dakota excavating contractor for five serious safety violations after the agency's investigators found a 40-year-old equipment operator suffered severe injuries while working in a 16-foot-deep trench on Oct. 28, 2016.

NYC contractor found guilty in worker’s death

June 13, 2016

A New York City general contractor was found guilty Friday of manslaughter in the trench-collapse death of a worker last year.

Plumbing contractor ignores OSHA safety standards

April 28, 2016

OSHA issued citations to Alabama-based Stephens Plumbing for one willful and four serious safety violations. The agency initiated the inspection as part of its National Emphasis Program on Trenching and Excavation after an inspector saw workers in a trench without protection.

Pa. worker hospitalized after trench cave-in

April 12, 2016

A Middletown, Pennsylvania contractor has been cited for multiple violations and fined $41,000 after a trench cave-in sent one of its workers to the hospital.

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.

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.