OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #953489
FRACTURE,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,TRENCH,SHORING,STRUCK BY,UNSTABLE SOIL,SLOPING,CAVE-IN,LEG
Event description
Employee's leg broken when trench caves in
Investigation abstract
Employees were working in an unsloped, unshored trench that was cut in shale and clay-type soil. The shale sloped into the trench on the east wall. A large port ion of the east wall slid into the trench. One employee successfully evaded the falling trench wall. Employee #1 was hit by a portion of the falling wall and wa s trapped for several hours. He suffered several breaks in one of his legs.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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