OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1005644
SUNY COLLEGE OF AGR & TECH MORRISVILLE
MORRISVILLE, NY·
Event description
Employee injured when buried in cave-in
Investigation abstract
On March 15, 1989, Employee #1 and three coworkers were attempting to locate a w ion and ingestion of dirt. As of March 20, 1989, he remained hospitalized in sta ble condition. ater line break in a campus water system using a power shovel to excavate the pr obable break area. At 9:45 p.m., Employee #1 entered the excavation to see if th e water line had been reached. As he started to hand shovel dirt at the bottom, a side wall collapsed and buried him completely. The rescue squad was called and the crew supervisor then entered the excavation to locate Employee #1 and to at tempt to free his head. The rescue squad arrived and administered oxygen during the 45 minutes necessary to free him. Employee #1 was taken by ambulance to Hami lton Hospital, suffering from a fractured clavicle, ribs, and ankle, and inhalat
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 30 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- OTHER (14)
- Source of injury
- DIRT/SAND/STONE (12)
- Occupation
- Construction laborers (869)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/ENGINEERNG CONTROLS (17)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.