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Minnesota contractor fined $380,000 for trench violations

hazardous trenches, according to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Three inspections in 2019 and 2020 found 13 violations by Wagner Construction of International Falls, Minnesota, for jobs in North Dakota. Initial penalties for the combined violations totaled $583,334 but were reduced after the company contested them. The violations include inadequate cave-in protection, soil piles placed directly on the edges of trenches, no ladders in the trenches, workers without hard hats, workers in trenches with accumulated water without proper precautions taken, and the competent person on site not removing workers from potential cave-in conditions. The company also faces proposed penalties of $9,446 after a worker was injured from being crushed by the counterweight of an excavator on August 11, 2020. This proposed penalty is not part of the $380,000 settlement, and the company is contesting it, according to

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