OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #639831
EXCAVATION,PINNED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,SHORING,SLOPING,CAVE-IN
Event description
Employee killed in excavation cave-in
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were in an excavation that was unprotected by shoring or sloping. They were leveling dirt around an 18 in. pipe for a sanitary sewer system when the excavation bank collapsed, pinning Employee #1 against the bell of the pipe. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 18
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 2
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