Incident date: 2022-12-20
NAICS industry code: 237110

Employees were setting an 18-feet-deep trench box. When the trench box was lowered into place, the injured employee began removing the rigging. He lost his footing on the box and fell into the trench, sustaining an ankle dislocation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Structures, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Dislocation of joints
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate