Collapse

    A trench collapse in Allentown has injured one construction worker and killed another. The workers, from J.D. Eckman Inc. in Chester County, were on the Linden Streen Bridge when they trench they were in collapsed, the Associated Press reports.

    The workers were pulled from the rubble more than an hour after the collapse. The injured worker is in serious but stable condition.

     

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