As he helped widen a road on Station Street in Mentor, Ohio, a 28-year-old water and sewer utility worker suddenly found himself buried beneath thousands of pounds of soil when a trench, more than 5 feet deep in which he worked, collapsed on him. Hours later, his injuries led to the man’s death in a nearby hospital.An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found his employer, Aqua Ohio, did not provide trench cave-in protection for its employees. OSHA cited the company for one repeated and five serious safety violations this month after the agency completed its
Aqua Ohio Cited for Deadly Trench Collapse
Regional sewer and water utility fined $44,800 after failing to provide cave-in protection and other violations.
