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Someone is down in a trench on my block. Doesn't appear to be a collapse, and I saw people running to get cardboard to fan someone. Maybe it's heat exhaustion but there's three ambulances 2 fire trucks several cop cars and probably two dozen police and fire and EMT personnel. A lot of people looking in the ditch and I can't tell what's going on.
I think there was some entrapment, as someone rushed a long iron bar over. The cat bucket was all the way down in the trench, so I thought maybe it had broken a hydraulic line and collapsed on the guy, but no fluid was evident around the place - and it would definitely be. They hauled him out on stretcher and gurney'd him to ambulance. Conscious, on drip. Boots and sox off. He'll be ok it seems. #NoOSHA
Yep, there it is. Wall collapsed and pinned the guy on the wall knee deep or so. You can see his boots in the hole they dug him out of.
Need wall plates below 5-6 ft depth IIRC.
I have violated this rule in a *much* deeper trench in the middle of winter in Wyoming -riding in the bucket down 15 ft it so to inspect archaeology in the walls - I was young & stupid.
Shoring arrived this morning. Better late than after someone gets trapped, oops.
Maybe they got drunk and fell in.
Heat, and the resulting dehydration, can greatly increase the effects of intoxication, in particular dizziness and exhaustion. (Basing this on experience of spending a summer in Portugal with a drunk.)
Of course, that's total speculation.
@FireMonkey Trenches are treacherous and proper shoring is a lifesaver! Glad they got the guy out, hope they're OK.
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