Incident date: 2017-05-23
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee had entered an excavation to remove misaligned sewer piping when the trench collapsed on the employee. The employee was bruised and required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Excavation or trenching cave-in
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Surface wounds and bruises, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate