Remember burying a friend (or being buried) in sand while playing at the beach? Maybe that image is one reason why it’s easy to underestimate the danger of being caught in a trench collapse at work.Sure, the soil might cave in, but so what? Unless it’s a huge cave-in, you’d just dig yourself out, right? The reality is far different. In fact, it’s sobering. When it comes to trench collapses, earth is definitely not friendly.You don’t have to be in an especially deep trench to be seriously injured or killed in a cave-in. In fact, you can be seriously injured
