In the wake of a rise in fatal trenching cave-ins, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has begun a targeted education and enforcement program to try to reverse the trend. The ...

Trenches don’t have to be dangerous. With proper shoring, appropriate atmospheric monitoring, the knowledge of an educated and experienced “competent person” and employee training, tragedies involving ...

Excavations and trenches have become so commonplace on work sites that some employers and employees have developed a sense of complacency with some of the most basic requirements of excavation safety.

Injuries sustained in trenching operations can be due to unsafe conditions, unsafe acts, or a combination of the two. If the only “solution” to an unsafe condition is to simply “man up” and perform ...

From 2000−2009, 350 workers died in trenching or excavation cave-ins—an av¬erage of 35 fatalities per year. Jun 13, 2011 NIOSH recently released a fact sheet detailing how to prevent worker deaths ...

Trenching and excavation are two of the most hazardous operations within the construction industry. In the first six months of 2022, 22 workers died during trenching and excavation work, surpassing ...