Police said the trench had been excavated to connect a private residence’s sewer system to the city sewer line.

NORWICH, Conn. — A person was hospitalized while suffering "traumatic arrest" after being rescued from a worksite trench collapse that partially buried them in a Norwich neighborhood Friday evening.

The collapse happened Friday evening along Hamilton Court. After being extracted from the hole, Michael Dirocco was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

A Connecticut construction worker was killed after a trench for a sewer line he was working on collapsed on top of him.

The "No Kings National Day of Mobilizations" is scheduled to take place nationwide Saturday, June 14, with about 30 taking place across Connecticut.

A sewer line worker who was seriously injured Friday when a trench he was working under collapsed has died, officials said Saturday.  Michael Dirocco, 60, of Norwich, was pronounced dead at Backus ...