OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14429724
MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE GROUP, INC.
EAGLE, CO·
Event description
Employee hospitalized after trench collapses
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was in a trench loading rocks into a backhoe bucket. He and the back hoe operator, the only employees at the trench site, were installing a sewer lin e over an existing sewer line. The trench collapsed, and Employee #1 was injured . The trench, which was 7 feet deep by 4 feet across the top, was dug in an area where previous backfill occurred.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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