After hearing that it was an earthen wall instead of a brick wall (which is what we originally were told), I respectfully disagree that it was a freak accident. One of the most dangerous things on a construction site is an unsupported or poorly supported dirt wall. The (relatively) warm weather we've been having lately could have easily loosened the soil by removing the frost. Now, I don't know what the construction site looks like, but the word I had was that the poor guy was in a truck. Anything tall enough to have eclipsed a truck should have been shored up firmly. Maybe it was and it gave way. I'll have to watch the news and see what it looks like, if they air it. But one of the most deadly places to be is in an earth collapse. Even if you are only partially buried and can still breathe, the crushing forces of the material burying you can cause irreparable damage, including tissue death and worse, toxicity in the blood that is trapped in the area under the collapse (because it can't get circulating and refreshed by the heart and lungs) ... all in all, a bad way to come to an end.
