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:: Sunday, December 21, 2003 ::
When Workers Die: A Trench Caves In; a Young Worker Is Dead. Is It a Crime? By DAVID BARSTOW, The New York Times
CINCINNATI — As the autopsy confirmed, death did not come right away for Patrick M. Walters. On June 14, 2002, while working on a sewer pipe in a trench 10 feet deep, he was buried alive under a rush of collapsing muck and mud. A husky plumber's apprentice, barely 22 years old, Mr. Walters clawed for the surface. Sludge filled his throat. Thousands of pounds of dirt pressed on his chest, squeezing and squeezing until he could not draw another breath.
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