OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14187033
GEORGE D. BOYER & SONS, INCORPORATED
HARRISBURG, PA·
Event description
Employee killed in trench cave-in
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 entered a trench that was being dug through an asphalt road surface. He was working for an employer who been hired to lay a lateral line to a main s ewer from a building that was approximately 60 ft away. He measured the depth gr ade at the 9 ft level, reported the grade to the hoe operator, and had turned to walk down the trench and out of the way of the hoe when suddenly the side of th e trench caved in. Employee #1 was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 33 Male
- Nature of injury
- Asphyxia (2)
- Part of body
- LUNG (28)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- DIRT/SAND/STONE (12)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OVERPRESSURE/UNDERPRESSURE (15)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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.