Fed OSHA Engaged in Major Trench Enforcement Efforts

PALO ALTO - Trench cave-ins led to the deaths of three construction workers in Florida and Pennsylvania late last year. On April 30, Fed-OSHA cited the companies involved.Alliance Construction Co. of Ardmore, PA, was cited for alleged violations and penalties totaling $145,000 following OSHA's investigation of an accident in which a father and son died when the trench they were working in collapsed. The inspection was initiated because of a police referral.In next-door New Jersey, before there