Construction Worker Killed In Jersey City Trench Collapse

A 35-year-old construction worker died after a trench collapsed on him in Jersey City Thursday morning, authorities said.

At the scene on Route 440 in Jersey City.
Photo Credit: *Anthony Johnson/ABC7*

Cecilia Levine

02/27/2020 11:09 a.m.

The worker was installing a water line on Route 440 when the incident occurred around 9:30 a.m., the city's director of communications Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione said.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration was at the scene as of 12:40 p.m.

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