Incident date: 2019-03-21
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was standing in a 6.5- to 7-foot deep excavation preparing to install a plastic drainage pipe when part of one excavation wall caved in, burying the lower half of the employee's body in dirt.  A large chunk of dirt also rolled against his upper body. He was hospitalized with fractures to the pelvis and several vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Excavation or trenching cave-in
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate