The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited a Nebraska contractor with five serious violations and $31,000 in fines following the investigation of a trench cave-in March 21 that buried 61-year-old plumber Jimmy Dale Spencer under thousands of pounds of soil.Spencer was employed by Clau-Chin Construction of Alliance, Nebraska, and was installing sewer lines for a home in an 8-foot-deep trench. A second worker, Seth Daniel Walton, 19, was injured in the collapse. He was taken to a local hospital, treated for minor injuries and released.OSHA says Clau-Chin failed to conduct inspections of the excavation, adjacent
