Wisconsin Worker Killed in Trench Collapse

    Dec. 19, 2007
    Rescue crews in Kenosha County are trying to get a man out of a trench.
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    TOWN OF SOMERS, Wis. --

    Recovery crews in Kenosha County are trying to get the body of a construction worker out of a trench.

    The rescue operation began at about 8:45 a.m. The worker was about 25 feet down.

    When crews reached the victim at about 10:45 a.m., the man was dead.

    The worker was at a construction site on 31st Street just west of Green Bay Road. He was part of a private contracting crew that was laying sewer pipe.

    The Kenosha County and Lake County special rescue teams were both called to the scene.

    The victim's family has been notified.

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