Trench Safety Equipment & Road Plates
MARGATE, FL – Working at the bottom of a Margate canal on April 4, 2022, a young diver was removing sand with an industrial vacuum to restore an embankment project when sediment above collapsed onto him, leaving the 22-year-old worker trapped until he drowned. A U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation found the diver’s…
DUDLEY, MO ‒ A federal workplace safety investigation alleges that a Dexter construction contractor might have prevented a pipelayer’s fatal injuries in a trench collapse on April 8, 2022, if the company had used trench safety protection measures as required by law. The worker was installing storm water drainage in an 8-foot-deep trench along Old Highway…
On Thursday October 6, 2022 a man was rescued by firefighters in Campbell County Wyoming after he was trapped in a trench collapse. The construction worker was working 15′ below ground and inside a trench box, when the walls of the trench around him collapsed. Thankfully, he was working inside the trench box at the…
Improving Safety by Identifying Blind Spots There are a wide variety of factors that cause accidents and injuries on a job site. Every time you get into a machine for a job, you are responsible for any damage you may cause in the process of operating it. Taking the necessary steps to avoid anything that…
One of OSHA’s primary concerns is the need to protect underground workers. All conscientious excavation companies should be concerned about this as well. A cubic yard of dirt can weigh as much as a car. Knowing this, it is easy to understand the deadly potential of even a small trench collapse. Each year approximately 40…
In the U.S., more than 800 construction workers die every year while on the job. One of the most dangerous types of construction work is trenching, which kills, on average, 40 workers every year. Workers can suffer death or serious injury within minutes of being caught in a trench cave-in. But these deaths can be…