(FORTUNE Magazine) – BOISE, IDAHO -- Kavin Gill said he and another employee of DeBest Inc. had to act quickly to rescue a man buried after a dirt wall collapsed on him. ''We could hear muffled screams . . .'' Gill said. ''His shoulders were pinned . . . I think he would have died.'' But the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration doesn't see it that way, and is fining ((DeBest)) nearly $7,875 in the . . . incident at a . . . construction site. OSHA said it levied the fines because workers failed to put on hard hats and took no precautions against other trench walls falling on them . . . Senator Dirk Kempthorne (R-Idaho) . . . called the citations against DeBest ''unconscionable'' . . . Idaho OSHA director Ryan Kuemichel said it would be ''selective enforcement'' if he did not cite DeBest. ''Rescues must only be attempted after taking proper precautions to ensure that would-be rescuers are not injured in secondary cave-ins,'' wrote Kuemichel . . . Kempthorne said . . . he is drafting legislation that would exempt acts of heroism from OSHA fines. -- From a news report in the Idaho Statesman.