OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #736140
KARISH CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.
PAINTSVILLE, KY·
Event description
Employees injured in trench cave-in
Investigation abstract
A construction company was laying gravity flow sewer lines (14,000 ft 8 and 10 i es that employees work inside the trench box at all times. n. PVC pipe). Employees #1 and #2, laborers, were working inside a trench box. W hile the foreman was away from the site for a few minutes to pick up tools, the employees decided to get out of the box and lay a 13 ft section of pipe. As they placed the pipe into position, the side walls began to kick in. As they ran to the box, Employee #1 fell and was covered up with approximately 3 ft of soil. Em ployee #2 made it into the box and tried to shovel Employee #1 out, but he was s truck by a large clump of dirt that pinned him to a cross member of the box as h e leaned out over it. Both men were rescued and hospitalized. The company requir
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 45 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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