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Accidents involving construction men being buried in trenches happen quite often. And the workers do as they are expected to do, or they have the choice of getting out of the business. ...like so many other occupations. The young man had a family to feed and knew better than to refuse to do or to delay any part of his work.

It would be easy enough to build a quick installation kit for structural support in trenches if something like that isn't already on the market. Something like that could be fastened together and lowered into a trench with the backhoe and a chain.

Will we help conservatism by deriding murdered peasants for lazy minded bosses? I don't think so.

Could an engineer come up with a cheap and ready means to prevent these deaths, via supports? Sure. I doubt it'll ever happen.

How many roofers do you know who will use or require use of some sort of rescue mechanism when they build on a roof? I never understood why they're up there with no net, no cable, nothing...It always seemed that it'd be so easy to design some protection for these men.