“Never again” he wrote on his Facebook page after a trench in which he was working collapsed in May. A month later, he was dead — killed in a trench cave-in.He was one of at least 23 workers who died in trenching accidents in 2016, compared to just 11 in each of 2014 and 2015. OSHA released the troubling statistic in mid-November with still a month-and-a-half left in the calendar year. “There is no excuse,” says Dr. David Michaels, OSHA’s assistant secretary of labor. “These fatalities are completely preventable by complying with OSHA standards that every construction contractor should know.”According to
