OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #811711
EXCAVATION,FRACTURE,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,LACERATION,BURIED,CAVE-IN,LEG
Event description
Employee fractures leg in excavation collapse
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 entered into a 4 ft by 4 ft excavation with a depth of 4 1/2 ft to w ork with a sanitary pipe. The excavation collapsed and the ground covered Employ ee #1 up to his waist. He was hospitalized with a fracture to the right leg and lacerations to the extremities.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 554
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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