But foreman Bert Smith Jr. removed the box shortly before the trench collapsed, Callister said, killing Smith, 36, and fellow Hard Rock employee Ernesto Saucedo, 26.

Rumph was killed in the second collapse. One of two rescuers in the trench was also injured. He is being treated at a local hospital for spinal and neck injuries, but is expected to recover.

A federal grand jury this week indicted the supervisor of a construction crew on duty when a trench collapsed and killed an employee in 2017 for allegedly lying to investigators about what safety ...

Chris McDonald, 34, was working in a 20-foot trench Monday afternoon when it collapsed, according to our news partner 10TV. McDonald was the only person in the trench at the time and his coworkers ...

Wednesday’s fatal trench collapse in New Plymouth is the third such incident in the past three years in the Treasure Valley. In May 2016, Ernesto Saucedo-Zapata, 26, of Nampa, and Bert Smith Jr ...

Surjit Gill, 36, was working inside a roughly 20-foot deep trench at a housing construction site in Renton, a Seattle, Washington suburb, on Sept. 7 when its walls collapsed and buried him in soil.

NEW PLYMOUTH, Idaho — Two men who were buried when a trench they were working in collapsed suddenly Wednesday morning have died, officials confirmed. The Payette County Sheriff's Office ...

A man died in a trench collapse in Belton. 41 Action News learned there was no shoring of the trench walls or a trench box to protect against a collapse.