OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14336846
FRACTURE,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,TRENCH,SHORING,UNSTABLE SOIL,SLOPING,BURIED,CAVE-IN,ANKLE
Event description
Employee injured in trench cave-in
Investigation abstract
At approximately 10:00 a.m. on August 22, 1989, Employee #1 was preparing to gra de the bottom of a trench that was approximately 6 to 8 ft deep and adjacent to an existing sewer line. The trench walls had not been shored or sloped. The tren ch caved in, partially covering Employee #1 with dirt. He sustained a fractured left ankle, fractured vertebrae, a fractured first rib, and multiple other injur ies, for which he was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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