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🌱 How a deadly trench collapse shook Big Ridge State Park

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  • How a deadly trench collapse shook Big Ridge State Park

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• 3 Die in Trench Collapses in Alabama, Tennessee, Ohio (equipmentworld.com) — A worker was killed and another critically injured when a trench collapsed during a sewer project at Big Ridge State Park in Maynardville on December 11. The incident was one of three deadly trench cave-ins this month across three states, and the contractor involved has previously been cited by OSHA for trench safety violations. Local readers should be aware of the ongoing investigation into worksite safety.
   

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