OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #709857
WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,TRENCH,SHORING,UNSTABLE SOIL,SLOPING,CAVE-IN,LEG
Event description
Employee injured in trench cave-in
Investigation abstract
On April 21, 1987, Employee #1 was in a north to south trench when a cave-in occ s necessary and he was going to prepare reports recommending that a serious viol ation be issued. urred. He injured his legs, but was not hospitalized. At the time of the investi gation, sewer pipe was being laid in the trench several feet north of where the cave-in had occurred. The exact location of the cave-in was covered and could no t be observed. The measurements used in preparation of an OSHA Form 1B were dete rmined from a discussion with the owner and from the configuration of the trench at the time of investigation. The owner said he knew all about OSHA and did not think it was necessary. An employee for the city of Richfeld was present and he confirmed the measurements. He also informed the owner that such information wa
Victim
-
#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.