Worker dies in cave-in at Pacific Palisades home
A construction worker died Thursday after being buried under 11 feet of dirt when a trench collapsed at a Pacific Palisades home, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
Department spokesman Devin Gales said rescuers were called to the home shortly before 11 a.m. A total of 95 firefighters and rescue workers worked for three hours trying to free the victim, but could not reach him in time.
To assist in the rescue, crews bored a horizontal hole through the wall of the home’s basement and inserted a fiber optic wire to observe the space where the man, who was not identified, was caught in the cave-in.
The accident occurred in the 600 block of North Palisades Drive.
Dales said California Department of Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors were on the scene to try to determine what had caused the cave-in and whether any safety violations had occurred.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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