Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
105,991Records 70,589Employers 85,836Hospitalizations 27,959Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-11-30

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #170065338

QUALITY UTILITY CONTRACTORS

Event
WALL, COLLAPSE, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, TRENCH, FALL, CAVE-IN
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Planned
Activity number
#108147489
Employer profile
QUALITY UTILITY CONTRACTORS
Summary number
170065338
Report ID
950411

Event description

Employee injured in trench wall collapse

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was standing on the east side of a trench taking depth measurements when approximately 21 ft of the east wall collapsed. He fell into the trench and was injured.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 41 Male

    Nature of injury
    Fracture (12)
    Part of body
    OTHBODYSYS (31)
    Accident type
    CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
    Source of injury
    DIRT/SAND/STONE (12)
    Occupation
    Occupation not reported (999)
    Human factor
    OTHER (14)
    Environmental factor
    SQUEEZE POINT ACTION (4)
    Task assigned
    Task regularly assigned (1)

Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.