A Connecticut contractor has pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment following the death of a worker who was buried alive at ...

Michael Conway was promised a conditional discharge — no probation or jail time — if he does 150 hours of community service and stays out of trouble.

Trench collapses are often immediately fatal, as one cubic yard of soil can weigh 3,000 pounds and fall in seconds, leaving workers no time to escape. But the employer is almost never held ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah — A 54-year-old man was killed after a trench collapsed in the backyard of his St. George home on Wednesday afternoon. The St. George Fire Department was called to the home on ...

A longtime North Burnaby resident told a Vancouver court Friday that he blasted a "supervisor" at the site of a fatal ... digging a trench too close to his retaining wall. Three days later, he said ...

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff The owner of a Maine construction company reached a settlement with the federal ...

when the retaining wall that was part of a residential property next to the trench started to collapse, he told the second day of the trial. Instead of laying charges under B.C.’s occupational ...

ST. GEORGE — St. George firefighters and police on Wednesday recovered the body of a man who died after being buried in the yard of a home after a trench collapse. St. George Fire Chief Robert ...

With the donation, the department added to its collapse and trench rescue equipment. When responding to certain calls, the department needs to stabilize the area to make sure it’s safe before crews go ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KUTV) — A St. George man was killed when a trench collapsed while he was working in his backyard. Rescue crews were called to the home on Grand Heights Drive after reports of a ...