OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221696321

CARMICHAEL DEVELOPMENT, LLC

CARTERSVILLE, GA— 2024-08-27T00:00:00

Event: Asphyxiated, Collapse, Crushed, Engineering Controls, Excavation, Falling Object, Installing, Laborer, Lack of Engineering Controls, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Pipeline, Sloping, Soil, Trench, Trench Box, Undrgrd Installation, Unstable Soil, Walking Surface, Work Surface
NAICS: 237110
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347715971
Employer profile: CARMICHAEL DEVELOPMENT, LLC
Summary number: 221696321
Report ID: 0418200

Event description

Employee dies of asphyxia when trench wall collapses

Investigation abstract

At 3:30 p.m. on August 27, 2024, an employee working as a construction laborer for a water and sewer line contractor was working in a 27-foot-long by 14-foot-deep trench. Several feet of the trench were not protected by a trench box or sloping. The trench collapsed on the employee crushing him. The employee died from asphyxiation.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 61 M

Event type
14

Occupation code
7010

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