Emergency crews managed to dig the man out but credit the was given to the three-tier system of building the trenchwalls to saving the man's life, otherwise he would have been crushed by the weight of all three walls.
OSHA is invetigating the cause of the trench collapse that caused the Kansas City worker injury.
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