OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14300115
WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,TRENCH,SHORING,SLOPING,BURIED,CAVE-IN
Event description
Two employees injured in trench cave-in
Investigation abstract
Employees #1 and #2 were engaged in a boring operation for installing telephone lance to the hospital. The trench was neither shored nor sloped. cable conduit. They had excavated two trenches: a boring pit and a receiving pit . They then dug an approximately 5 ft 6 in. wide by 12 ft long trench, which was 6 to 6 1/2 ft deep at its northern end and 8 1/2 to 9 ft deep at its southern e nd, to locate a gas main that was in the boring path just outside the boring pit . After locating the gas main in the trench, the employees dug 1 ft deeper with a backhoe. When they got back into the trench to uncover the main with shovels, the east side wall of the trench caved in. Employee #1 was buried to his knees a nd Employee #2 to his chest. Both employees were dug out and transported by ambu
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 43 M
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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