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Trench Shoring & Shielding
United Rentals Shares Four Tips on Proper Use of Trench Protective System Tabulated Data
Manufacturer’s tabulated data can save lives at trench and excavation worksites.
Rental
H&E Enters Trench Safety Specialty Business
Trench Shoring & Shielding
United Rentals Shares 8 Critical Trench Box Safety Tips
Trench Shoring & Shielding
United Rentals Offers Free Trench Safety Stand Down Digital Learning Series
Events
Webinar: Increasing Awareness of Factors that Influence Trench Safety
May 28, 2020
May 28, 2020
Trench Shoring & Shielding
When Do You Need an Engineer for Your Trench Shoring Design?
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Recognize the Barriers to Successful, Profitable Construction Projects
Understanding and addressing the barriers to successful project completion can help you get them done profitably.
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Top 10 Hottest Construction Stories This Week: Ensuring Forgiveness Under the PPP
Most-read construction stories include a timelapse of a bridge in the United Kingdom, the March 2021 Dodge Momentum Index, selecting the best wheel loader tire, GM’s electric Chevrolet Silverado, and the complicated process of PPP loan forgiveness.
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Trench Shoring & Shielding
PERI Formwork PD-5 Shoring System
The system comprises just six parts and features a load-bearing capacity of up to 10,000 lbs per leg.
Trench Shoring & Shielding
Efficiency Production Octagon Box
Construction Safety
Seven Trench Safety Toolbox Talk Topics to Build Knowledge of Hazards, Safe Practices
United Rentals offers topic suggestions to advance worker knowledge about trench hazards and safe work practices
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United Rentals Helps Contractors Advance Trench Safety Through Training
More than 90,000 workers have been trained in trench safety operations since the initial Trench Safety Stand Down in 2016
Construction Safety
Two Contractors Cited After Fatalities at Florida Hotel Worksite
PCL Construction Services Inc. and Universal Engineering Sciences facing OSHA safety violations and proposed penalties totaling $157,792
Trench Shoring & Shielding
Demolition Contractor Continues to Learn New Tricks After 60 Years
60-year-old Pitsch Companies uses a new shoring system for the first time while demolishing a gas station
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[VIDEO] 5 Things You Should Know to Stay Safe in a Trench
U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta public service announcement on trench safety
Construction Safety
Resources Offered to Keep Workers Safe from Trenching-related Hazards
U.S. Department of Labor provides resources to increase awareness of trenching hazards, educate employers and workers on cave-in prevention and decrease the number of trench collapses
Construction Safety
2018 Trench Safety Stand Down
June 18, 2018
June 23, 2018
The 2018 Trench Safety Stand Down will be held between June 18-23. It is supported by OSHA and sponsored by the National Utility Contractors Association, North American Excavation Shoring Association and Safety Ambassadors Club.
Trench Shoring & Shielding
Slide Rail Helps Shelly & Sands Build BMP Storm Sewer from Bottom to Top
Contractor turns to slide rail system to maintain safety on a complex underground utility installation project.
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Contractor Fined in Fatal Boston Trench Collapse
Atlantic Drain Service Co. Inc. cited for 18 violations for alledgely failing to provide safety training and basic safeguards for employees
Trench Shoring & Shielding
Contractor Chooses Slide Rail for O’Hare Airport Pump Station Install
With limited space and limited shoring options for the jumbo concrete structure, Midwest REM turned to EPI's Slide Rail Shoring System.
Trench Shoring & Shielding
Kundel V-Panel
Aluminum extruded panel offers "on the fly" independent vertical adjustment in the trench
Trench Shoring & Shielding
[Video] Installing Hydraulic Shoring
Locate Management is an education, training, and assessment service provider for the ground disturbance (excavation) and line locating communities.
Trench Shoring & Shielding
Michigan Contractor Helps Install Long-term Solution to Flint Water Crisis
Contractor uses a customized trench shoring solution to install 13 miles of 60-in.-diameter pipe for the Karegnondi Water Authority pipeline
Trench Shoring & Shielding
Multi-Bay Slide Rail Systems
Construction Safety
Contractor Cited After Worker Dies in Trench Collapse
Willful citations were issued to Tekton Construction Co. for not providing cave-in protection to employees working in a trench and not providing safe means to enter and exit the trench
Trench Shoring & Shielding
How to Assist Your Customers When Renting Trench Shoring and Shielding Equipment
Excavation projects by definition are dangerous operations that require caution and planning, especially when the excavation is intended to create a work space for personnel such as for underground installation repair or installation.
Construction Safety
OSHA Cites A. Lamp Concrete for Exposing Workers to Cave-In Hazard
Proposed penalty totals $69,300 to Illinois company cited twice in the past for trenching violations
Construction Safety
California Contractor Indicted for Manslaughter in Trench-Collapse Death
Work continued for days despite two stop-work notices issued by a Milpitas building inspector because of elevated trench-collapse conditions
Trench Shoring & Shielding
Shoring Solution, Careful Planning Meet Strict Requirements for Construction Under Denver’s Union Pacific Rail Yard
Contractors uses GME sliderail system to help minimize excavation size and soil disturbances during tunnel construction only 27 feet from a railroad track
Construction Safety
OSHA Fines Fischer Excavating $58,100 for Trenching Hazards at Rockford Site
One of three violations cited was willful, failing to provide cave-in protection to workers installing a sewer line in a trench approximately 11 ft. deep
Construction Safety
OSHA Cites Contractor For Repeat Cave-in Hazards Violations
Joseph P. Cardillo & Son Inc. is facing $144,400 in OSHA fines after it is cited with two willful and one serious violation for cave-in hazards
Trench Shoring & Shielding
Contractor Partners with Rental Company for Shoring Solutions During Excavation Project
Kayser Construction partnered with Trench Plate Rental Co. for safe, economic trench and shoring solutions during a 30-foot-deep excavation project.
Construction Safety
Contractor, OSHA Reach Settlement Over Excavation Cave-in Hazards
Massachusetts contractor agrees to pay $200,000 fine and overhaul safety practices
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ultraSHORE Trench Shields
Construction Safety
OSHA: Safe Work Practices for Excavation and Trenching
Key elements of the OSHA excavation and trenching standard, ways to protect employees against cave-ins and safe work practices for employees
Construction Safety
OSHA Cites S.J. Louis Construction of Texas for Exposing Workers to Excavation Hazards
Proposed penalties of $45,500 for failing to protect workers from falling materials (serious violation) and for failing to provide required shoring (repeat violation)
Construction Safety
Video: Trenching & Excavation Safety
This excerpt from NAHB Construction Safety & Health's Trenching & Excavation Safety Video highlights the most common hazards associated with residential trenching and excavation.