Abstract: Employees #1 and #2 were laying 10 in. pipe in a 12 1/2 to 13 ft deep by 22 ft long by 24 ft wide trench that was neither sloped nor shored. A large chunk of dirt fell from the middle of the west wall, pinning Employee #1 against the east wall. Employee #2, who had started out of the trench, went back in to help Employee #1 when the whole west side of the trench closed, burying and killing both employees. If Employee #2, the company owner and the only one on site with the employees, had lived, he would have been cited. The general contractor had neither a representative nor any employees on site.