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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...