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Trench collapses have killed hundreds of workers in the US over the last decade
.S. over the last decade By Cheryl W.
Phillip Numrich, owner of Alki Construction LLC, a plumbing and sewer repair business in the Seattle area, was charged with second-degree manslaughter in 2018 in connection with the death two years earlier of employee and longtime friend Harold Felton in Washington state. “When a worker is hurt or killed in a trenching collapse, OSHA should very much consider a referral of that event to a local district attorney who could take on the criminal case,” said Michaels, a professor at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. Three employees of the city of Eutaw, Ala., were working on a broken sewer line in the Branch Heights public housing project shortly before 5 p.m. in April 2023, when part of the trench wall collapsed, trapping 46-year-old worker Tony Rice under mud, asphalt and concrete.
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