20 Mar Excavation/Trenching Safety
Excavation and Trenching Safety Excavation and trenching work can expose employees to extremely serious hazards. Cave-ins are the greatest risk and are more likely to result in fatalities than many other...
03 Aug Excavations Are Serious Business
Excavations Are Serious Business Excavations and trenches do not have to be extremely deep or large to create life-threatening hazards. Soil is heavy, and a cave-in can occur suddenly with little...
26 Jun Trenching Safety
Trenching Safety Trenching is one of the most hazardous activities in construction. A trench is a narrow excavation made below the surface of the ground that is generally deeper than it...
18 May Foundation Construction
Foundation Construction Foundation construction can expose employees to serious hazards involving excavations, underground utilities, reinforcing steel, concrete, silica dust, power tools, heavy equipment, material handling, and falls. Proper planning, training, inspections,...
22 Mar Trenching
Trenching Trenching operations expose workers to cave-ins, falling materials, hazardous atmospheres, underground utilities, water accumulation, and mobile equipment. Because trenches have restricted working space and limited means of escape, hazards must...
20 Mar Engulfment Hazards
Engulfment Hazards Engulfment can occur when a worker is surrounded, buried, or submerged by a flowing or collapsing material. Soil, sand, gravel, grain, seed, sawdust, powders, water, chemicals, and other materials...
02 Mar Trenches
Trenches Trenches can expose workers to cave-ins, hazardous atmospheres, falling materials, water accumulation, mobile equipment, and other serious hazards. A trench can collapse suddenly and without warning, so workers must never...
01 Mar Trenching and Shoring
Trenching and Shoring Trenching and shoring operations are common when installing buried utilities, pipelines, drainage systems, and other underground infrastructure. These operations can expose workers to cave-ins, falling materials, hazardous atmospheres,...
14 Jan Excavations
Excavations Cave-ins are one of the most serious hazards associated with excavation and trenching work. Other hazards include falling materials, underground utilities, hazardous atmospheres, water accumulation, mobile equipment, and falls into...
08 Aug Excavations
Excavations An excavation is any man-made cut, cavity, trench, or depression in the earth's surface formed by removing soil. Excavation work can expose employees to cave-ins, falling materials, hazardous atmospheres, underground...