Incident date: 2019-12-16
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was digging around the saddle of a sewer tap at a residential job site. The side wall of the ditch collapsed and a chunk of asphalt and dirt pinned the employee against the side of the ditch. He suffered broken ribs and a broken pelvis.

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 trunk locations
severity: moderate