The consequences of unsafe trench, excavation work can be fatal.
Mar 11, 2021
OSHA has cited Cherokee Pride Construction Inc. of Sapulpa, Okla. for serious violations related to excavation work. According to a press release from agency, inspectors arrived at a job site in September 2020 to find “employees in standing water as they installed water lines in two trenches as part of a street widening project.”
OSHA said it determined that the company failed to protect workers from cave-ins and did not provide appropriate means of escape. Workers were also not wearing required PPE for the job.
This isn’t the first time this company has been in hot water with OSHA. Back in 2017, the agency cited the company three times for failing to provide trench workers personal protective equipment, a means of escape and hazard recognition training, allowing standing water inside excavation sites, and failing to fix ladder defects.