Entries Tagged Open Trench

In response to a recent spike in trenching fatalities, OSHA has updated its National Emphasis Program (NEP) on preventing trenching and excavation...

“Never again” he wrote on his Facebook page after a trench he was working in collapsed in May. A month later, he was dead...

The National Utility Contractors Association is requesting all contractors, municipalities and others involved with trenching operations to hold a Trench Safety Stand Down...

As he helped widen a road on Station Street in Mentor, Ohio, a 28-year-old water and sewer utility worker suddenly found himself...

Two men are dead and another was injured after an 11-foot deep trench collapsed in Hays, Kansas. A crew from locally based...

Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a two-part article that discusses 14 steps you and your work crews must plan...

Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a two-part article that discusses 14 things you and your work crews must plan...

A construction worker who was part of a crew working on a sewer main replacement project in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, died last week...

In 2012, the City of Palo Alto Utilities (CPAU) in Calif., entered its 20th year of a 25-year project to replace 75...