INCIDENT A 22-year-old man was killed when the 14-foot-deep trench in which he was working collapsed and buried him beneath tons of soil and debris. Carlos Moncayo of Queens was working on the construction of a Restoration Hardware store in Manhattan on April 6, 2015, when he was killed on the job. Carlos was the 18th construction worker to die in the job in 2015 in New York city. NEED TO KNOW An excavation is any man-made cut, cavity, trench, or depression in an earth surface formed by earth removal. Trench is a narrow excavation (in relation to its length) made below the surface of […]
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