The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries confirmed that a second investigation is still pending into the June 3 incident near Woodland in which the bucket of an excavator fell on a trench worker.

The nearly $14,000 in fines and fees it lodged against Vancouver-based Rotschy Inc. last week for violations at a job site in the 1900 block of Lewis Road in Woodland is the conclusion of only one investigation involving confined space violations, L&I spokesperson Dina Lorraine clarified in a follow-up email to The Daily News on Monday.

A second investigation surrounding the circumstances at the job site on June 3, when a worker was airlifted with serious injuries when the bucket of an excavator fell on him, is a separate investigation that is still pending.

“There were two inspe

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