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Construction Worker Dies in Roseville, Calif., Trench Collapse.

By Jocelyn Wiener, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 18--A construction worker died Thursday when a trench at a Roseville water treatment plant collapsed on him, officials said.

The worker, an employee of Gateway Pacific construction company, was in his 20s or 30s, officials said. His name has been withheld pending notification of his family.

Sometime around 2 p.m. the man climbed down into an 8-foot-deep trench that he and a fellow worker were excavating with a backhoe in order to find the end of a pipe, sai

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