OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #777730

EXCAVATION,WORK RULES,SLIP,CONSTRUCTION,UNSTABLE SOIL,CONTUSION

1989-08-07T00:00:00

Event: EXCAVATION,WORK RULES,SLIP,CONSTRUCTION,UNSTABLE SOIL,CONTUSION
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 777730
Report ID: 854910

Event description

Employee injured in fall into excavation

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was sloughing off a bank edge with a shovel while backfilling an exc avation. He pried off too much, causing the area on which he was standing to bre ak loose. He slid into the excavation down the angle of repose (3/4:1), sustaini ng a possible contusion. He was examined at the Utah Valley Hospital emergency r oom and released the same day.

Victim

#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 34 M

Nature of injury
3

Part of body
3

Event type
5

Source
22

Occupation code
999

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
18

Task assigned
1

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