OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14497671
TRENCH BOX,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,TRENCH,SHORING,SLOPING,BURIED,CAVE-IN
Event description
Employee killed in trench cave in
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and coworkers were installing 8 ft sections of a 24 in. diameter con crete storm sewer pipe in an approximately 6 ft wide by 10 1/2 ft deep by 30 ft long trench. Employee #1 and a coworker had sealed the last joint and were walki ng toward the exit when a wall caved in, burying Employee #1 and killing him. Th e coworker escaped uninjured. The trench's nearly vertical walls were not shored . An 8 ft wide metal trench box had been used the previous day while installing pipe in another part of the trench, but the box was too wide to be used on this day.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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