The topic of this month’s column, trench safety, is nothing new. It’s been addressed before in the pages of this magazine and in numerous articles over the years on Cleaner.com.
But the need to bring it up again seemingly hasn’t waned. As 2022 was coming to a close OSHA reported that there had been 35 worker fatalities due to trench collapses during the year, more than double the number of incidents in 2021 and the highest amount in at least a decade.A cubic yard of soil can weigh as much as 3,000 pounds and all it takes is mere seconds for
