A Texas construction company that was one of scores across the country whose employees have died after trenches they were working in collapsed, reached a plea deal Tuesday with prosecutors.

Austin-based D Guerra Construction LLC agreed to plead guilty in connection with the death of Juan José Galvan Batalla, 24, of Bastrop, Texas. The company was indicted last year after he and another worker were installing a residential water line in Travis County in October 2021 when the 13-foot-deep trench caved. The trench had also faced a partial collapse earlier in the day, and both were told to return anyway. Galvan Batalla died a week after the collapse due to traumatic asphyxia, according to the Travis County Medical Examiner's Office. The other worker was seriously injured.

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