A person has died following the collapse of an 8-foot-deep trench at a construction site in southwest Houston, specifically ...

Feb. 5—A construction worker died Wednesday afternoon after an 8-foot trench collapsed at a southwest Houston Apartment ...

Authorities say one crew member was able to escape while the other didn't make it during a trench collapse, which was approximately 8 feet deep.

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.

ST. GEORGE, Utah — A 54-year-old man was killed after a trench collapsed in the backyard of his St. George home on Wednesday afternoon. The St. George Fire Department was called to the home on ...

ST. GEORGE — St. George firefighters and police on Wednesday recovered the body of a man who died after being buried in the yard of a home after a trench collapse. St. George Fire Chief Robert ...

"While our crews were on-route, we were advised there was a trench collapse. The battalion chief requested search and rescue to respond," Rome Fire Department Division Chief Jamie Stone said.

Hayes said the gas line was damaged about 25 feet away from where a worker became stuck Dec. 20 after a trench collapsed. The worker in the Dec. 20 collapse was left with an injury to his left ...

Firefighters responded to a home on Hampton Lane around 8:50 a.m. after a worker became trapped in a collapsed trench, according to the fire department. When they arrived, they found a man who ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KUTV) — A St. George man was killed when a trench collapsed while he was working in his backyard. Rescue crews were called to the home on Grand Heights Drive after reports of a ...