A Hillsboro-based contractor is facing over $80,000 in fines after repeatedly failing to protect its employees from trenching hazards, state safety regulators say.
The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division issued a citation to Renner Trucking and Excavating Inc. on May 12 following an inspection that found two employees working in an unprotected trench at a residential construction site in Beaverton.
The trench — approximately three feet wide, 12 feet long and more than five feet deep — had no protective system in place to prevent a collapse, according to OSHA…