A California construction company has been issued proposed penalties totaling $157,500 following the death of one of its ...

Cindy Hess became an outspoken advocate for trench safety after her son Zach Hess died in a trench collapse in 2017 in Ohio at age 25. Details here ...

Researchers have determined that fossilized bone fragments found in a cave in the Sierra de Atapuerca mountains of northern Spain come from the earliest known face in Western Europe, which belonged to ...

According to Cobb County fire officials, it happened in the 9000 block of Hill Road, just off Hiram Lithia Springs Road.

who in digging a trench across the deposits on the floor oof Ghar Dalam found two human teeth of a remarkable character. They lay in the second stratum of the cave-a deposit of red cave earth ...

The 27-year-old victim was buried under dirt and debris after the collapse of a 17-foot channel dug for a pipe project.

Twana Allen. Lt. Allen said the first step was to shore up the trench to ensure the dirt will not cave in on rescue workers or the trapped individuals. Officials then devised a plan to rescue the ...

The two employees in the trench "worked without cave-in protection, and no ladder was in the excavation for employee egress," the report said. As the two employees worked in the trench ...