A construction worker was taken to the hospital in critical condition after a trench collapsed on top of him Monday afternoon. The St. George Fire Department and other responders were sent to the area of 3430 East and 2170 South in Little Valley just after 4 p.m. where a trench was being excavated as a part of road and utility work, St. George Fire Chief Robert Stoker said.
A member of the crew, a man in his mid-20s, either had the ground give way under him in or he tripped and fell into the trench. Before his coworkers could get a ladder down to him to climb out, the side of the trench collapsed on top of him.