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JUNE IS TRENCH SAFETY MONTH! An Unprotected Trench Can Be An Early Grave Trench Safety Stand Down Week | June 15–19, 2020 Make plans for your company to participate in this year’s NUCA Trench Safety Stand Down Week. Being a part of our popular 5th annual TSSD Week will help educate your employees on trenching hazards at the jobsite. Also sponsored by NUCA’s Safety Ambassadors Club OSHA’s National Emphasis Program on Trenching and Excavation is a high agency priority. NUCA and OSHA have teamed up again this year for our annual trench safety program. Almost 48,000 industry and NUCA member company employees participated in last year’s TSSD. Every company or organization that holds a TSSD will receive a certificate of participation, as well as hard-hat stickers for every employee who participated. Recognition will also be given in NUCA publications. Alex E. Paris Contracting Atlas Excavating Barber Utilities Case Construction Equipment Caterpillar, Inc. Cemen Tech, Inc. Core & Main CNA Ditch Witch Efficiency Production Ferguson Waterworks Greg Strudwick & Associates HCSS HRP Construction Hymax by Krausz John Deere Johnson Bros. Komatsu America Corp. L.G. Roloff Construction McLaughlin Boring Systems National Trench Safety Oxford Plastics USA Petticoat-Schmitt Civil Contractors Safety Management Services Sunstate Equipment Co. Team Fishel United Rentals Xylem Wacker Neuson Corp. JUNE 2020 • DITCHMEN 17 For more details and TSSD materials: nuca.com/tssd #TSSD20 #TrenchSafetyMonth