Trench Safety

denick

What if anything do you do about trench safety?

Do you have a competent person according to the OSHA requirement?

Do you always take the precautions that are required at the depths you are working?

Can the required safety regulations be met by companies without expenses that are extreme?

Have you ever experienced trench collapse?

Is safety a concern only because of the trouble you can get in or do you worry about your people and yourself?


Nick

dayexco

Trench Safety

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What if anything do you do about trench safety? we always pull a box, if that's not possible, we slope the excavation

Do you have a competent person according to the OSHA requirement? yes, my son and myself

Do you always take the precautions that are required at the depths you are working? most certainly, i'm not in the business of hurting people
Can the required safety regulations be met by companies without expenses that are extreme? definitely

Have you ever experienced trench collapse? not on my jobsite, competitor had employee that had his pelvis busted from a cavein in a 8' sewer ditch, no box, he thought he had ditch sloped out enough

Is safety a concern only because of the trouble you can get in or do you worry about your people and yourself? read above, i'm not in the business to hurt people. nor do i want to look somebody in the eye and try to explain that my actions hurt/killed their family member

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rino1494

Doing pipework, we always use a box. I've had a couple collapses on one job I did. I was putting in a 8" sewer main 12-14' deep in pure sand. Those walls wouldn't hold up and they kept collapsing. When putting the laterals in off of the mains, we ususally use the box or i'll bench it off. We don't have a manhole box, looking to get one soon though. We've set 19' manholes with no box.

When doing housework, we never have a box on the job. We are thinking about getting a small aluminum box for hookups. We just open it up as much as possible. Sometimes that is hard because the gas and water mains are in the way.

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bobstrat

a little off topic but since trench collapse was mentioned have you exp. "running sand " in your neck of the woods ??? i was diggin for a sewer lateral in fairless hills pa and at about 6' ran into what i was told is running sand.... i thought the guys above ground pool was going to end up in the hole.... i would love a real explanation as to what this is

rino1494

hmm....never heard it called that. I was tapping into a existing manhole in a street for a 8" sewer main. My trench was 12' deep directly at the toe of a 2:1 slope. The top of the slope was 6' high which also happened to be the property line of a womans nice yard. I got down about 4 ft and hit pure sand. The sand kept pouring in, or like you heard "running". I had to keep digging inside the box to bale it out. Finally so much sand came in the trench that the slope was undermind and part of the ladies yard fell in the trench and rocked the box. We had to fix her yard and replace the mulch that now became backfill material.......lol

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