United Rentals, Inc. is sharing eight trench box safety tips to help contractors and utilities promote safe work practices in trenching and excavation operations. Developed from United Rentals’ ...

Excavations and trenches have become so commonplace on work sites that some employers and employees have developed a sense of complacency with some of the most basic requirements of excavation safety.

There’s a famous saying, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” It’s commonly accredited to Mark Twain, but likely it's one of those ...

Trench work is inherently dangerous, and trench boxes used in trench and excavation projects help keep workers safe and protected from cave-ins. Eight tips from United Rentals enhance trench box ...

Every month in the US, two workers die on average from a trench cave-in. That’s 24 workers every single year—a number that doesn’t even account for the many others who are seriously injured by ...

Two workers in Texas were killed June 28 when the unprotected 20-ft-deep trench they were inside collapsed, as trench shields sat unused beside the excavation. They were the 21st and 22nd workers to ...

The trench box that would have saved Surjit Gill’s life stopped four feet short of the top of the trench he was working in — even though the additional equipment needed was sitting, unused, on the ...

The key to safe excavations between 5 and 20 feet deep is that the work be supervised closely by a trained, competent person. (Trenches 20 feet or deeper require a safety system devised by a ...