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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Millstadt Trench Collapse Prompts Lawsuit
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports today that the family of a victim of a trench collapse has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Followell Construction. Yankey Eickelman and Walter T. Eickelman were killed March 10 when an eight to ten foot deep trench and crushed them. They had been hired as subcontractors by Followell Construction.
The article reports that:
"The suit accuses Followell Construction of negligence in operation of the construction site, where workers were building a new sewage treatment plant. It alleges the company relaxed safety standards that directly caused the death of Ron Yankey, a plumber working in a ditch at the site."
"'At the time the sides of the ditch were not shored nor secured, and no cage was within the ditch to allow Ronnie to work,'" the suit said, for the first time publicly accusing the company of not using a safety mechanism."
OSHA is currently investigating the incident.
The article is available at: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf
The article reports that:
"The suit accuses Followell Construction of negligence in operation of the construction site, where workers were building a new sewage treatment plant. It alleges the company relaxed safety standards that directly caused the death of Ron Yankey, a plumber working in a ditch at the site."
"'At the time the sides of the ditch were not shored nor secured, and no cage was within the ditch to allow Ronnie to work,'" the suit said, for the first time publicly accusing the company of not using a safety mechanism."
OSHA is currently investigating the incident.
The article is available at: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf
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