A 27-year-old worker in Harris County, Texas, says being trapped for six hours in a collapsed trench was the scariest event of his life.
The worker, Chris Gerhardt, was part of a two-person crew repairing a sewer line. A backhoe operator instructed him to go into the trench to inspect the line, but there wasn’t proper shoring equipment in place.
“I expressed multiple times that I was concerned about it,” Gerhardt tells Click2Houston News. “He told me we had to get it done, basically.”
Shortly after entering the hole, a wall collapsed and buried him up to
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