Failure to understand when an engineer is required. Adjacent structures may be near an excavation, but when workers hear over ...

The contractor needs to pay special attention to the width and depth of trench to determine if shoring is required." "With shoring, a contractor can use any type of compaction available ...

In one week, two workers died in a trench collapse in Maryland, two were rescued in Michigan, and a Tennessee contractor was ...

In conjunction with Kent Freeman's May feature on trench rescue operations, this document offers trench rescue tabulated data that can be used in type C soils anywhere in the United States as long ...

Authorities say two contract workers who were trapped Tuesday evening after a trench collapse in Wyandotte ... also called shoring, around the workers to prevent any more soil from falling ...