The utility construction association is promoting excavation safety through training events, demonstrations and industry ...

The National Utility Contractors Association will host the 10th annual Trench Safety Stand Down June 15-19 to spread ...

OSHA says workers continue to be hurt or fatally injured every year from well-known and preventable trenching hazards.

There’s a famous saying, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” It’s commonly accredited to Mark Twain, but likely it's one of those ...

United Rentals will host a series of online trench safety educational events in support of the 2022 Trench Safety Stand Down, which takes place June 20-24. The free training sessions will promote ...

OSHA cited Cherokee Pride Construction Inc. of Sapulpa for serious violations related to excavation work. Inspectors arrived at a Broken Arrow job site in September 2020 and found employees in ...

United Rentals, Inc. announced a series of online trench safety educational events in support of the 2022 Trench Safety Stand Down, which takes place June 20-24. The free training sessions will ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Kevin Sullivan, Occupational Safety and Health Administration area director in Westbury. Summer is approaching and with it comes all the great things we love ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A 48-year-old construction worker died Tuesday after he was caught in the partial collapse of an excavation trench in Lindstrom. The Lakes Area Police Department said that the ...

New regulation requires contractors to submit a detailed written safety plan before digging begins to prevent fatal cave-ins.

A life was taken too soon when an excavation company’s owner died while fixing an underground sewer line in Rapid City, SD when the trench around him collapsed. His life ended under thousands of ...