Clark County contractor cited for repeated trench safety violations; quick action prevented potential tragedy.

Though people don’t often get trapped in trenches, construction workers are in them all the time, and trench walls caving in ...

Firefighters responded to a home on Hampton Lane around 8:50 a.m. after a worker became trapped in a collapsed trench, according to the fire department. Stream Connecticut News for free, 24/7, ...

reporter what steps his company has made to ensure safety since the death. The company is still working on Wilkes-Barre Township’s sewer project.

A Clark County company is facing $140,500 in fines from the Washington Department of Labor & Industries for safety violations, according to a Thursday news release from the state agency.

WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Emergency workers in Brooklyn worked for nearly an hour on Tuesday morning to rescue a man who got buried up to his waist in a trench collapse. It happened around 9:44 ...

BONDURANT, Iowa — A Polk County man is suing a West Des Moines based homebuilder and that company's subcontractors following a 2023 incident that injured him and left him temporarily buried on a ...

A construction worker in Goodyear died in July after a trench collapsed on him. The trench, which lacked support planks, caved in while the worker was inside, causing traumatic asphyxia, officials ...

The development of local infrastructure in communities nationwide has resulted in a large amount of road and utility work. With this work comes opening of soil—and the hazards of possible trench ...

Trevor Kilgore said in a complaint filed in Iowa District Court that he was buried alive after a trench wall he was working in at a home construction site fell on June 12, 2023 For about 20 minutes, ...

OSHA cited Cherokee Pride Construction Inc. of Sapulpa for serious violations related to excavation work. Inspectors arrived at a Broken Arrow job site in September 2020 and found employees in ...

There’s a famous saying, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” It’s commonly accredited to Mark Twain, but likely it's one of those ...