Police reports show that emergency personnel and construction workers were able to free Slater from the trench and provide medical aid and ... equipment and other equipment to prevent trench cave-ins.

A Suffield contractor and an employee have pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the second degree after another employee died at a construction site.

A Connecticut contractor and equipment operator pleaded guilty April 4 to second-degree manslaughter after a worker died in a ...

Dennis Botticello, 69, of Suffield, and Glen Locke, 67, of Somers both pleaded guilty in the July 22, 2022 death of a worker in Vernon, officials said.

Construction-related trench collapses are rare but extremely dangerous, often resulting in fatal outcomes due to the weight and speed at which the earth can fall, officials say. OSHA regulations ...