Serious Violation Alleged in Guam Trenching Death

By: Cal-OSHA Reporter - The leading occupational safety and health publication in California.

A contractor at Guam's Andersen Air Force Base has been cited for one serious and one other-than-serious violation of federal safety standards after a worker was killed in a trenching operation.Candido Edelo Edu, 22, an employee of Nova/Frederick AJV, died April 23 as he was beginning a 90-foot trenching operation as part of the base's replacement fuel line project. Edu was working on the "blind" side of a trenching machine within one to two feet of the unit when the dirt bank on which

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