{"id":468875,"date":"2026-09-19T08:24:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468875\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T08:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:24:33","slug":"stanislaus-county-trench-incident-near-hickman-leaves-1-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468875\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanislaus County trench incident near Hickman leaves 1 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person died after becoming trapped in a trench near Hickman in Stanislaus County on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Stanislaus Consolidated Fire Protection District said its crews were called to the area of Lake and Hickman roads just before 10:30 a.m. for a reported trench rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said the initial report was that a person was trapped inside the trench. The response was upgraded to a technical rescue, bringing additional trucks and a rescue unit to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hickman-trench-collapse.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"hickman-trench-collapse.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Scene of the trench collapse.<\/p>\n<p>                Modesto Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>After crews assessed the situation, the operation shifted from a rescue to a recovery. One person was confirmed dead, fire officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The recovery was completed Friday, and fire officials said Cal\/OSHA had taken over the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not released the identity of the person who died or said what led to them becoming trapped.<\/p>\n<p>It also remains unclear what company was performing work at the site.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person died after becoming trapped in a trench near Hickman in Stanislaus County on Friday morning. Stanislaus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,14770],"class_list":["post-468875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-stanislaus-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}