News Briefs: Worker Dies After Being Struck by Excavator in Trench

A construction worker at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant in Baltimore, Maryland, died after being hit by an excavator, according to the Baltimore Sun. The worker, Transito Rodriguez Cruz, 36, worked for a company hired by the city for a construction project at the plant and he was working in a trench when the bucket of an excavator hit him. Cruz was later pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. OSHA is investigating the incident along with the Baltimore Environmental Police. This marks the second trench-related worker death in Baltimore this year, after a 20-year-old construction worker