Occupational Safety and Health Administration
An El Paso contractor could have prevented a 37-year-old employee from suffering fatal injuries in February by following federally required safety standards to avoid trench collapses, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the same failure for which it was cited six times since 2015.
OSHA determined a pipe layer for CMD Endeavors Inc. was allowed to work in an excavation without a proper protective system. (Read about the three types of proper protection systems.) The trench collapsed, causing a piece of asphalt to fall and severely injure the worker who later died in an area hospital.
