Shoring... its a good thing.

[TAB]

http://www.break.com/index/osha-shows-up-as-wall-collapses.html



bad day for some one.

[tombogan03884]

http://www.break.com/index/osha-shows-up-as-wall-collapses.html

bad day for some one.

Lucky one for the guy in the hole !

[DDMac]

A water treatment plant is being build all around my house and on land I used to own (eminent domain). They are burying 42" water lines and lots of electrical conduit underground as I watch the workers every day. They do not cut corners and there are daily cave ins where the steel box saves them. Not me, baby! Don't like dirt naps.
THAT'S a reasonable regulation!   Mac.

[tombogan03884]

A water treatment plant is being build all around my house and on land I used to own (eminent domain). They are burying 42" water lines and lots of electrical conduit underground as I watch the workers every day. They do not cut corners and there are daily cave ins where the steel box saves them. Not me, baby! Don't like dirt naps.
THAT'S a reasonable regulation!   Mac.

I'm with you on the "dirt nap", only planning on one, and it's WAY in the future. (I hope  )

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Anything over I beleave 5'8"( its been awhile) deep  has to have shoring in place.  Soil type does not matter.    Most   water/sewer districts get nailed for it all the time.

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[jaybet]

My day job has always been in construction. I had a non- union buiilding and restoration business and now I'm a field engineer and work on mostly union projects. The independant, non-union business often doesn't have the resources to work with or the knowlege, but we were always putting safety first.
I have to say that Union jobs are really focused on worker safety and a problem only seems to come up when someone Screws Up or an act of nature...not because the site wasn't safe.

I know from experience though that you NEVER know when a trench will let loose... so shore it up !