Show Trench cave-in injures man at Sales Barn A trench seriously Injured- a workman in Roosevelt Friday evening at the Sales of is reported to be improving the Salt Lake where he was taken following the Todd suffered multiple fractured cuts and bruises when he was buried for 45 minutes when a trench caved in as Todd was laying pipe in the bottom of an eight-foot deep The sides of the trench caved in covering Todd with two to three feet of He also suffered a deep cut back of his left ear when struck by a fork of a backhoe being used to dig him a partner in the Uinta Sales was laying a drain pipe at the time of the Three other men in the trench at the time were Bill Marvin and Dick One of them ran for the backhoe which had been used to dig the trench and another called a doctor and the Utah Highway It took 15 minutes for the backhoe to reach the victim and then rescuers used their hands and shovels to finish digging him out His face was turning blue when his head was uncovered but he quickly regained HE WAS treated by a doctor at the scene for the gash behind his car then taken to the Roosevelt Hospital and was later taken to the Salt Lake |