GREGORY, Texas (KRIS) — One person is dead and two others are injured after a trench collapsed in Texas.
It happened Tuesday at a worksite near an apartment complex.
Construction workers were digging with a backhoe when the trench collapsed.
A 36-year-old man was buried under all the dirt.
He was pulled out but later died.
A coworker was partially trapped, and a third man who jumped in to rescue them was also hurt.
Both those men are expected to be OK.
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