In November, 41-year-old Houston plumber Jack Martin died in a trench collapse while working on a sewer line behind a shopping center. Around the same time, in Detroit, Aaron White, too, found himself buried in a collapsed trench while replacing a sewer line, but he fortunately survived with some injuries after a rescue crew spent hours digging him out.
“It was scary. I didn’t see a way out,” White told TV station WKYZ.Both incidents are being investigated, but the initial indication is that proper safety protocols were overlooked. They’re just two examples of trench collapses that make headlines and continue to
