[Old Professer]

A trench box is essential to work like this, but some days the ground is so unstable that the work can't be done by hand at all.

This company should be put out of business.

I used to be a safety official; you can't ever stop preaching regardless how deaf the ears.

[DB]

The worker knew better as well.

[Dan Evans]

I wonder if this outfit was mobbed up.

[N3WBI3]

In this case it would not have saved his life, the debris was far too liquified to save him, but by not having it there the broke the law and thus by definition comitted a crime. In my short stint as a safety inspector for USACE I would have never let a man go down into a rain soaked trench...

[newzhawk]

The owners of the bar that caught fire and killed so many patrons when White Snake used pyrotechnics for the show were crimanally charged and held responsible for not using safety measures - of course the business should be charged with negligence - and more- knowing they should be using the box and a death occurred is worse than someone leaving a gun out and a death occurs yet they are usually charged