Michael Conway was promised a conditional discharge — no probation or jail time — if he does 150 hours of community service and stays out of trouble.

A Connecticut contractor has pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment following the death of a worker who was buried alive at ...

With the donation, the department added to its collapse and trench rescue equipment. When responding to certain calls, the department needs to stabilize the area to make sure it’s safe before crews go ...

A Maple, Ontario construction company has been fined $250,000 after two workers were killed in a tunnel collapse at a site in Ajax in the summer of 2022. Direct Underground Inc., pled guilty in ...

The 13-foot-deep trench they were working in partially collapsed, and they immediately notified their supervisor. No one was hurt. Hours later, according to the federal Occupational Safety and ...

when the retaining wall that was part of a residential property next to the trench started to collapse, he told the second day of the trial. Instead of laying charges under B.C.’s occupational ...

On Oct. 11, 2012, 28-year-old pipe layer Jeffrey Caron finished his coffee break and jumped back into the trench he'd been working in in North Burnaby. About 10 minutes later, he was fatally injured ...

Other employees tried to use machinery to remove the collapsed wall. Richer, who wasn’t as close to the wall, managed to get out. A third employee, who had been in the trench before the collapse ...

Tensions grew at Rourkela's Dalmia Cement plant as families of three missing workers, trapped after a coal bunker collapse, tried to enter the premises. Despite ongoing rescue efforts, the workers ...