Incident date: 2019-02-18
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee entered a trench (about 7 feet deep and 7 to 8 feet wide) to install a fitting on a sewer main at the bottom. The trench's one vertical wall collapsed onto the employee, who suffered four broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and a broken shoulder blade.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Excavation or trenching cave-in
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate