Pipelayer Killed By Trench Cave-in
One pipelayer was crushed to death and another injured when a trench collapsed.
One pipelayer was crushed to death and another injured when a trench collapsed.
One man died in a construction site accident in Iowa earlier this year. Two men were working in a ditch replacing a sewer line when a wall of dirt suddenly caved in. One man was killed and the other suffered serious injuries to his legs.
A 53-year-old backhoe operator was killed, and his son seriously injured, when the wall of a trench they were working in caved in.
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