Clark County contractor cited for repeated trench safety violations; quick action prevented potential tragedy.
A Clark County excavating company has been fined $140,500 after a state inspector intervened to stop a trench from collapsing on workers earlier this year.
Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) inspector Tyler Barrick was driving past a construction site in Ridgefield when he saw employees working in a 12-foot-deep trench. As he approached, he photographed workers pulling colleagues out of the trench by hand because the ladder on site was too short to reach the surface…