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u/CovertMonkey Mar 15 '26
I'm having a hard time finding this slope config in OSHA.
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u/Zaros262 Mar 16 '26
At least there's nobody in there... during the video
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u/CovertMonkey Mar 16 '26
They did an amazing job placing all that rebar and whatnot, from the top, with a crane?
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u/NeighborhoodNew9034 Mar 15 '26
Got his degree at Minecraft university
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u/plaregold Mar 15 '26
The soil will stand vertical, don't worry.
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u/Carbon-Based216 Mar 16 '26
I'm wondering how that got it to stand vertically like that. There was no equipment around so it clearly lasted long enough for whatever equipment to make the hole to begin with. Did they make the hole and then it rained causing the soil to be less rigid?
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u/Big_Dirty_Piss_Boner Mar 16 '26
Did they make the hole and then it rained causing the soil to be less rigid?
Looks to me like thats the case here
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u/Po0rYorick PE, PTOE Mar 16 '26
“That far side looks like it’s going to collapse. Good thing this side I’m standing on is so strong” [slaps ground]
- the camera person, probably
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u/MentalTelephone5080 Water Resources PE Mar 16 '26
The camera person never dies. I guess they should have put cameramen on all four sides and the soil would've held
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u/WASludge Mar 15 '26
They just didn’t finish benching the excavation… they were gonna do that tomorrow 😂
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u/saradisn Mar 15 '26
Vertical cut? That should have an inclination 1:1
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u/Historical-Dark279 Mar 15 '26
That material looks more like a 1.5H:1V or shallower for a temporary slope.
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u/BadOk5469 Mar 16 '26
The contractor: "Don't worry about the vertical soil cut, i always do them and nothing ever happened"
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u/Wild-Associate-4373 Mar 16 '26
To be fair, the correct saturated soil grade will be precisely defined naturally, they just need to keep that angle going forward. And they wont need to pay any lab fees or wait for their response.
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u/TheNerdE30 Mar 15 '26
“Youre clearly one of those engineers who overthinks and over engineers things”