OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #822783
FERGUSON TRENCHING CO INC
CROFTON, MD·
Event description
Employee sustains multiple injuries in trench cave-in
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 had just cleaned out a Y on a main sewer line to place a pipe for a house connection. He was still at the bottom of the trench when the trench wall caved in, burying him up to his shoulders. Employee #1 sustained eight broken ri bs, a broken shoulder, a punctured lung, and injuries to his right arm and chest .
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 585
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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