But the employer is almost never held accountable for these deaths. Of 250 trench collapse deaths that occurred between 2013 and 2023, the NPR investigation found, at least 20 happened in Texas.

After the city of Albany admitted to failures in two employee on-the-job deaths, the city also released incident reports that ...

The City of Albany is finally answering questions about two on-the-job deadly accidents after WALB has been digging for ...

A Central Texas construction company is facing criminal charges related to a 2021 trench collapse that killed a worker. D Guerra Construction LLC and a project superintendent are accused of ...

A third employee, who had been in the trench before the collapse to retrieve a tool ... criminal liability of corporations for workplace deaths and injuries. It’s referred to as the Westray ...

More than 12 years after a pipe layer was crushed to death by a collapsing trench wall on a Burnaby city sewer project, the foreman on that job is being tried for manslaughter. If convicted, David ...

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A groundworks firm was fined £50,000 today over safety failings that led to two workers being crushed to death when the wall of a former milking byre collapsed.

In contrast, columns of smoke billowed into the sky in the direction of the Abu Shouk displacement camp, which had witnessed widespread destruction and dozens of deaths and injuries due to months ...

caused by subduction along the Japan Trench. The magnitude 9.1 earthquake triggered massive tsunami waves that devastated coastal areas, leading to the deaths of over 15,000 people and causing the ...