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Excavation Safety Resources

• Incident Summary - Excavated trench collapses burying worker
Date of incident: February 2016; Notice of incident number: 2016166920005. Incident Summary: At a residential construction site, a worker was in a recently excavated trench more than 1.2m (4ft) deep. While the worker was shoveling around a pipe, the east wall of the trench suddenly collapsed and buried him.

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Residential Construction