OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221423296

PRECISION PIPE AND GRADING, LLC.

WAUKEE, IA· 2021-12-27T00:00:00

Event: Caught In, Collapse, Installing, Struck By, Trench, Unstable Soil, Water Pipe
NAICS: 238910
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345705305
Employer profile: PRECISION PIPE AND GRADING, LLC.
Summary number: 221423296
Report ID: 0751910
Project type: A
Construction end-use: P

Event description

Employee is caught in trench collapse, receives unspecified

Investigation abstract

At 4:30 p.m. on December 27, 2021, an employee worked in a six-foot deep by fifty-four-inch-wide trench to install a new forty-foot long by sixteen-inch-wide pipe. At some point, the trench wall collapsed, and the employee was struck by the falling soil. The employee was hospitalized to treat unspecified injuries to the lower body.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 28 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
7038

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