“Safety is the key to our company. We just want to make sure everybody goes home safe at night to their families,” said Jason Richter, owner of Groundworks Contracting Inc. out of Breese.
A federal workplace safety inspectors found Groundworks Contracting of Breese, Illinois, failed to protect workers who were installing storm sewer lines from the risk of trench cave-ins on a least five occasions.
Groundworks Contracting Inc. of Breese, Illinois ignored a city's engineers instruction to use trench cave-in protections, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.