OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #760157
CONSTRUCTION,TRENCH,SHORING,SLOPING,BURIED,CAVE-IN,SPRAIN,LEG
Event description
Employee strains leg when caught by trench cave-in
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was installing 5 ft sections of 8 in. clay sewer pipe in a trench ap proximately 7 ft deep by 7 ft wide at the top by 3 ft wide at the bottom. He had laid a section of the pipe on the bottom of the trench and was moving it into p osition when a section of dirt gave way. The dirt buried Employee #1 up to his k nee, trapping his foot against the pipe. Other employees freed him within two mi nutes using hand shovels. He was taken to a hospital where he was diagnosed as h aving strained leg muscles and ligaments. The trench was dug in average soil con ditions.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 20
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 579
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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