OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221399371

TANTO IRRIGATION, LLC

QUECHEE, VT· 2021-09-04T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Broken, Broken Bone, Buried, Caught In, Chest, Collapse, Collarbone, Construction, Crushed, Engineering Controls, Excavation, Fracture, Installing, Irrigation Equipment, Irrigation Pipe, Lack of Engineering Controls, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Shoulder, Shoulder Bone, Soil, Struck By, Trench, Trench Box, Undrgrd Installation, Unsafe Position, Unstable Soil, Unstable Surface
NAICS: 221310
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345525513
Employer profile: TANTO IRRIGATION, LLC
Summary number: 221399371
Report ID: 0155010
Project type: E
Construction end-use: M

Event description

Employee breaks collarbone when trench wall collapses

Investigation abstract

At 8:25 a.m. on September 4, 2021, an employee working for an irrigation systems contractor was working on a golf course work site near the pump house. The employee was investigating an unknown object in a trench while the excavator was still digging the trench. The wall of the trench collapsed burying the employee to his chest. The employee was hospitalized to treat a fractured collarbone, requiring surgery.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 30 M

Event type
1

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