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bluedigger

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2. Don't need to run a union job to follow OSHA excavation safety rules.

Reply to Atticus (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 12, 2019, 06:58 PM

Mar 2019

I don't know the history behind the rules, (usually it involves multiple deaths) but I know any trench over 5' below ground surface needs to be stepped or shored if there's going to be people in it. A cubic yard of soil weighs roughly the same as a Volkswagen.

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Worker trapped in 14-foot ditch at Dunkin Donuts construction site in Montgomery Co. [View all] elleng Mar 2019 OP

This is why UNIONS have long required contractors to use shoring in most any ditch Atticus Mar 2019 #1

Don't need to run a union job to follow OSHA excavation safety rules. bluedigger Mar 2019 #2

Laborers and Hodcarriers Union fought for these safeguards in their contracts back before Atticus Mar 2019 #3