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Rescue of a person from a collapsed trench
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Trench rescue is a specialized form of rescue, a subset of confined space rescue. Trench rescue involves shoring up the sides of a trench, and digging a trapped worker out of a collapsed ditch. Trench rescue is one of the most dangerous rescue operations to complete.

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  1. "Building Collapse/Trench Rescue". Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2010-12-02.


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