Today, the piles of construction waste—large mounds of dirt ... Despite the problems the spoil pile is causing, the site isn’t considered hazardous, according to the city.

and/or the lack of a formal excavation plan are the primary accident causes. Unsafe placement of spoil pile, operating equipment too close to the edge of a trench, improper shoring, failure to ...

Another 32 bones have been recovered from the excavation site, the Grand Rapids Public Museum reported. The bones were found in a pile of top soil and dirt, known as a “spoil pile,” that ...

But protective systems for trenches that are 20 feet deep or less may also need RPE approval given certain site conditions—for example, if a spoil pile is adjacent to the trench or the excavation is ...

A Kentucky trench excavation was braced by a trench box, creating a feeling of security, but the trench box was too short. During a collapse, spoil piled ... (above), a pile being lifted with ...

Pipes, construction materials and other items can provide voids ... Ground pads are 4 x 8-foot sheets of three-quarter-inch plywood. (The spoil pile side requires 2 x 12-inch planks between the trench ...

for using an inadequate system inside the trench to protect workers and for failure to keep spoil piles less than two feet from the excavation's edge. OSHA also issued a citation for the ...