Young construction worker buried when trench collapses

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This emotional new video focuses on 24-year old Curtis Zanussi who was seriously injured while working on a golf course construction site. It highlights the dangers to young workers in construction and emphasizes the employer's responsibilities for training and supervision.

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[Abreen11]

Great video and lucky he's still alive as so many people in the past have died in such accidents. Too much of the problem in many accidents like this revolves around poor management by supervisors, inexperienced workers, not firstly assessing the risk and identifying how to eliminate, mitigate it or not start the job at all if it's deemed too dangerous and being in too much of a hurry to just get the job done without the proper safety precautions in place...

[avitech77]

It's a miracle he is still alive.

[yurf9]

It's expected that you do a good job.

Ofcourse that makes people take more risks..

[random123outburst]

sometimes you can have all the training but accidents happen, at my dads company, a worker was working as per the SOP(standard operating procedure) and a forklift driver was making a turn and knocked over a jug of acid, it his the workers legs and he had to be taken to the hospital

[LiquidZ2k]

He could have prevented this... how? Besides not being in the trench.

[WickedChess]

I wonder what kind of soil this was? gotta know what kind of soil your dealing with, you may know how to run a trackhoe, etc but if your dealing with poor soil your gonna have some problems no matter how good of a operator/labor your are.  It's all about safety and soil.

[farkdanarc]

sometimes the issue is getting management on board. a challange i face, is that some seem supportive of the programs, yet wont send thier staff o the training when its provided....

[llillybud]

Train 4 a job wots the big deal?

[eleanorroosevelt1]

If i were the boss i would fire all the supervisors and replace them with guys like these safety officers.

[lesjeshammerdown]

Accidents like this can happen so suddenly. Supervisors can't let the training and proper precautions slide or management assume that the supervisors them selves are trained well enough to prevent this.