Colorado Contractor Faces Sentencing for Manslaughter Charge

Peter Dillon, the owner of construction company A4S LLC, will be sentenced in November after pleading guilty to a manslaughter charge related to a worker’s trench collapse death, the Labor Department said Wednesday.

The DOL’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigated the incident in which a 23-year-old employee died from a trench collapse in Breckenridge, Colo., while installing a residential sewer line.

OSHA cited Dillon’s company in May 2022 for not ensuring the excavation was inspected by a competent person, failing to instruct employees on the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions, not having a safe means of exit ...