Last Ditch 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
A construction engineer was taking soil samples from a site when he vanished. The engineer was working with a backhoe operator, who dug five trenches and then covered them before leaving that day.
Police now theorize the deceased may have been in a hurry and preoccupied when he made one last trip into a trench without notifying the backhoe driver.
The owner of the engineering company, said that safety policies that would have averted the accident already were in place, and that the deceased had been the company’s safety officer.
There had been an OSHA training session about three weeks before the accident, that reiforced one simple rule. Samples are taken from the backhoe bucket, and no one goes into a trench unless it has been reinforced. Those trenches did not have reinforcement.
No punitive action has been taken against backhoe operator. Submitted on 03/12/2002
Submitted by:
Luke Agens
Reference:
www.dentonrc.com 3/12/2002
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