OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14565600
WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,TRENCH,UNSTABLE SOIL,SLOPING,BURIED,CAVE-IN
Event description
Employee injured in trench cave-in
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was digging in a 6 ft 6 in. deep by 35 ft long by 2 ft wide unsloped trench. Another trench, approximately 5 ft deep, that had been backfilled three or four days earlier by another contractor, crossed the first trench. Employee #1 was at the point where the two trenches crossed when a cave-in buried him to his waist.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 55 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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