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Items Tagged with 'trench collapse'

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Fatal results after a crack in a trench wall fails to stop work

February 26, 2019
One worker noticed a large crack in the soft dirt of an unprotected wall of a utility trench. He and the other worker in the trench at that time were told to use caution…but continue working. The subsequent collapse of that unprotected wall killed a man and earned his employer nearly a quarter of a million dollars in fines from Cal/OSHA. Investigators for the state agency said Livermore-based contractor Platinum Pipeline, Inc. committed willful-serious safety violations by instructing employees to continue grading the bottom of the trench without providing any protection, even after identifying the soil as unstable.
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trenching fatalities

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.
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NYC foreman convicted in worker’s death

November 10, 2016
A New York City construction foreman has been found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and reckless endangerment in the death of a worker last year.
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OSHA enforcement

Mass. employees exposed to cave-in hazards

July 22, 2016
An Andover, Massachusetts water and sewer line contractor is facing $65,800 in fines after OSHA inspectors discovered its workers toiling in a six-foot-deep trench that was not properly shored.
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Construction co. ordered to make safety PSAs - or pay fine

July 14, 2016
A New York State Supreme Court judge ordered a general contractor to either create a TV public service announcement or pay a $10,000 fine for its role in the death of an employee at a construction site.
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Today's News

Guilty construction company faces sentencing

July 12, 2016
A coalition of general contractor companies is among the nearly two dozen groups urging a New York Supreme Court judge to give a construction company owner the maximum sentence for a worker’s death.
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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.
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OSHA enforcement

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.
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OSHA enforcement

Gravedigger engulfed in cave-in at Long Island cemetery

November 25, 2015
An employee of St. Charles/Resurrection Cemeteries in Farmingdale, New York, was seriously injured on May 7, 2015, when the walls of the grave opening in which he was working collapsed and buried him up to his waist.
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A U.S. Dept. of Labor Blog post

Egregious safety lapses have consequences, high or low

July 31, 2015

Recently in Texas, two men were seriously injured on the job. In some ways, their circumstances looked very different. They were in different cities, working for different employers. One was repairing a roof, high above the ground. The other was in a trench, about eight feet down.


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