OSHA Cites Employer for Fatal Trench Collapse

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited an excavation contractor after a worker was fatally injured in a trench collapse. OSHA opened an investigation into Jonas David Wagoner, doing business as J.D. Wagoner Excavating, in April and discovered that workers were installing a sewer system in a deep trench that was not adequately protected from collapse. A portion of the trench failed, engulfing the worker. The agency issued a willful violation for failure to guard against cave-ins, and two repeat violations for failing to conduct daily trench ins...