OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14557698
COSTILLA MUTUAL COMMUNITY WATER ASSOCIATION
COSTILLA, NM·
Event description
Employee killed when trench wall caves in
Investigation abstract
A customer was slated to have his water shut off. To expose the shut-off valve, a backhoe was used to cut a 32 in. wide by 7 ft deep trench in old river gravel soil. Employee #1 was in the trench looking for the valve when a wall caved in. He was killed. The trench walls were cut vertically.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 63 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 694
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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