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Tag: construction trenching and shoring

Last Text From Worker Before Fatal Trench Collapse: “It’s Getting Deep”

“It’s getting deep,” is the text a worker sent to his girlfriend two hours before a 12-foot deep trench collapsed and killed him, according to a lawyer for his family.  James Rogers, 33, of Winchester, Ohio, died from asphyxiation and “mechanical chest compression,” according to a death certificate. Rogers sent the text which included a …

Company Convicted of Manslaughter in Workers Death

A construction company has been convicted of five counts, including manslaughter, in connection with the death of a worker who was crushed to death when an unshored, 13-foot-deep trench collapsed. A New York state judge convicted Harco Construction LLC (aka H&H Builders Inc.) for recklessly causing the death of 22-year-old Carlos Moncayo, an Ecuadorian immigrant. …