They are preventable, yet still kill around 40 people every year. With all the rules to follow and guidance to help, there is no reason for fatalities or injuries in trench accidents.Sometimes accidents just happen, but there are those times when people take shortcuts or even worse, ignore safety. For company owners, there are good reasons to consider the business ramifications of following safety rules. Here are three recent examples, all announced in October, of companies that ended up paying large fines; two of the cases involve no injuries.Two workers were killed and another seriously injured in May in Boise,
