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This site shows an example of unsafe excavation practices: The worker is in the trench without shoring, and standing directly beneath the excavator as it operates.
In April 2021, a Long Island contracting company was ordered to cease all excavating operations and pay $136,000 in penalties, the result of a trench collapse accident that killed two workmen in late 2020.
The resulting agreement also commits the company to do the...
