Excavation Death Trap: Not Today

Worker climbs out of an excavation just in the nick of time before it collapses.

[@derek04151]

No, you won't have a warning that it's going to cave in...and No, you're not going to have a chance to do anything about it. You find out when it's on you, and you won't "Superman" your way out of it. In my case, 9 feet deep with a vertical face on one side and a sloped face on the other. The sloped face saved me from being completely buried.

[@floridagunrat1625]

I spent most of my life working in underground construction. I've been there myself. You are 100% right!

[@darringrooms126]

I hope that the workers understood the importance of the safety lesson, and in the future, they remember that moment

[@SilverStarHeggisist]

Just bought my first backhoe, so these videos are something I watch carefully to learn as much as I can.

[@PhrozenFox]

Legend

[@markduvall6452]

I have been there and seen the walls cave in and it almost got me I was lucky.... always use a Ditch box

[@RXSVN_2]

What I got when I searched it is something called a trench box.

[@toryknotts8026]

If you wouldn't let your kid or pet in there don't go in there

[@trespire]

You just saved that man from injury or worse.

[@ACombineSoldier]

It's a question of "Do you want to be potentially alive tomorrow?" OR "Do you want to be laid off?"

[@johnfoltz8183]

Pick your poison

[@SilverStarHeggisist]

@@johnfoltz8183 Quit and go work for the company with bracing for trenches.

[@stanley1554]

Wowww.. you saved the man's life. That is remarkable. Good for you but better for him 🤣 basically like an act of divine intervention. Had you not been there exactly when you were. He would not be here anymore. His friend would have chopped him in half with the bucket trying to dig him out 🤣

[@Harley04]

that was awesome, thank goodness for SAFETY !!!

[@stanz3x]

Wow crazy attempts people do for a job!

[@JamesSmith-jq2jc]

Well, looks like you saved their life. The contractor KNEW what safety precautions needed to be made, but since us slaves are nothing but HUMAN RESOURCES we are easily replaced. Companies will gamble with workers lives all in the name of more PROFITS. Maybe when owners, managers, supervisors and the like are faced with serious jail time for neglect, this type of safety issue will be eliminated. I think many companies just " PREACH " safety, they don't really believe it. Strange, that's like many religious people.

[@NuncNuncNuncNunc]

Vote for politicians who will defend workplace safety regulation, defend unions, and protect workers from retaliation. If any politician tells you corporations are people, you know where their loyalty lies.

[@SilverStarHeggisist]

I've found that often times it's not just company owners but employees who laugh at safety processes as being unnecessary. I had a coworker at my last job who wouldn't worry about doing something right if it took longer to do, even though our boss preferred us to work safely

[@randomcollections4049]

Thats in Quesnel BC. In carson sub looking down from CNC campus

[@oydeekoi8271]

NOT TODAY

[@Gasteraner]

That s a "popular" mistake if workers or operatores don t care about to secure the excavation. Thanks for that - may your videos make workers more sensitive for safer work Take care Alexander

[@ScottMusgrave]

thats good, he was ok

[@aussiejezza]

"what do we say to death?"

[@otiskirkland168]

Damn that's what's up, that's the problem with this world we got people doing the wrong jobs I believe you two should be police officers... Good job

[@darkwolfe6986]

Excellent job! Safety is everyone's responsibility 👍

[@tg8948]

shoring at 4 feet? mustve been a lot of leprecahauns in BC back in 2011

[@admiralcraddock464]

A company next to where i work just had a man killed doing just this.

[@Dani2wheels]

Dont break your arm patting yourself on the back