OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14486948
INSTALLING,CONSTRUCTION,TRENCH,SHORING,SLOPING,CAVE-IN
Event description
Employee killed by collapsing trench wall
Investigation abstract
Two employees in a trench were installing bottom whalers when a wall collapsed. Employee #1 died and his coworker escaped by moving into a sheet section of the trench.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 58 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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