OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14332431
WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,TRENCH,SHORING,SLOPING,BURIED,CAVE-IN
Event description
Employee injured when buried in trench cave-in
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was laying 4 in. sewer pipe in a 2 ft wide by 9 to 10 ft deep trench that was not shored or sloped. One of the trench walls caved in at the bottom, burying Employee #1 up to his lower chest. After an 8-hour rescue effort Employe e #1 was freed by the fire department and hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 587
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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