Arcosa Shoring Products, a leading manufacturer of trench safety equipment, is providing trench safety training for all U.S. and Canadian excavation construction personnel remotely via Zoom. In ...

The development of local infrastructure in communities nationwide has resulted in a large amount of road and utility work. With this work comes opening of soil—and the hazards of possible trench ...

Contractors can often develop their own shoring designs for trench excavations. However, excavations near adjacent structures, underground utilities and roadways may come with unique and complex ...

Labor and industry groups are collaborating on a new effort to improve trench safety, a growing concern on jobsites across the U.S. in recent years, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

June 07 -- Baltimore Fire Department officials said Wednesday that a deep trench that collapsed around a 19-year-old construction worker did not have protective shoring to stop the muddy earth from ...

Shoring materials include what will be put in place to make the trench safe, including ShorForm, FinForm and EuroForm wooden panels. These panels are a minimum of 1-inch high-grade plywood that’s ...