Digging a hole (tunnel) while the rain pours in

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So you are sitting in a tunnel under a busy construction site that your or your friends have dug. Traffic is no doubt passing over your head. It is raining and sleety. Soil falls from overhead and runnels of water flow around your feet. Unknown to you the ground weakens around you as it relaxes.

Do you,

A) leave by the quickest exit.

Or

B) sit tight and sue the HSE for not taking account of your predicament.

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A, and then make a complaint to the HSE about the company...

You can't, as far as I'm aware sue the HSE, as they are there to enforce the rules etc but it's the companies responsibility to do the safety assessment and take the necessary precautions, with HSE only getting involved to do a check on the company, or if there is an accident or complaint.

One of my friends who is (as part of his job) trained as, and in charge of safety for a construction related company put is as IIRC "ultimately it's up to the employee to decide if it's unsafe, and take action regardless of whatever the company says is safe, or what is considered acceptable practice at the company".
Basically the company has a duty of care in law, but employees are also meant to take steps to protect themselves regardless of if it's spelled out in company policy.
 
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shouldn't the tunnel be reinforced for safety by sheets of wood or something, you can't just dig a tunnel in mud and not expect it to collapse

there a tall building near me under construction and it's clearly sitting inside a huge hole in the ground with a pump pumping water to a small grass field close to it.
 
C) Complain to the media about the shoddy state of the tunnel that you built, claim the bailiffs are causing it to rain, all while blatantly ignoring covid rules and expect the general public to have sympathy.
 
Should've just filled the tunnel in tbh.

Look at this trash, exactly what you'd expect: Useless, unwashed, zero achieving, time rich drains on society.

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The tunnel should not have been dug in a conservation area. It will disturb small animals and historically important stuff. The perpetrators should be prosecuted and probably sentenced to hard labour on a major infrastructure project.
Will there be any effect on the 'real' project, I doubt it, applause from their supporters maybe.
I really don't support HS2 as it seems to be a money making scheme for friends of the decision makers, but dangerous little protests will make difference what so ever.
 
I would have delivered some 'survival' packs to the protesters which would in fact be glitter bombs like that Engineering guy builds on YouTube.

I think the protesters wouldn't even register the essence of skunk when that sprays out.

I'm not a fan of HS2 or distructive protesters.
 
wolfie138 said:
i would do neither, you said the situation was unknown to me.
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Neither stay nor leave? Difficult one that. :D

I was saying unknown as to a layman's knowledge of soil mechanics. Not as a tunnel engineer. However as boards bend and props buckle or sink. The creaking of the minimal temporary support may cause intelligent thinking people that this is not a safe place to be.
Even stopping the work above will not make these tunnels a safe place to be so I cannot see what they achieve except losing their own life and causing distress to relatives.a 1.2m deep trench can be fatal in a collapse, a tunnel is easily far more hazardous.
 
Anyone else find it slightly ironic that to
protest against one tunnel, the great unwashed are digging their own tunnel?
 
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