A worker who was killed while helping to install a sewer line had escaped trench collapses twice within a month of his death.
OSHA has issued two willful and two serious violations to KRW Plumbing LLC of Jamestown, OH for:
- not providing trench cave-in protection
- failing to protect workers from excavated material falling or rolling into a trench, and
- failing to train workers in recognizing trench hazards.
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