A family member of the worker killed in a trench collapse near Breckenridge in 2021 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking monetary damages from the owner of the construction company that employed the worker..
The Arapahoe County Coroner's Office ruled 70-year-old Haywood Hammond's death a homicide after finding "several factors concerning for neglect as being contributory" to his death.
Nov. 16 marked one year since 20-year-old Marlon Diaz was killed in a trench collapse which also partially buried a second individual near Breckenridge. Since then, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety.