Incident date: 2017-08-28
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was working inside a 10 to 12 feet deep excavation for the installation of a new underground pipe. He was standing inside the trench box (12 feet high x 8 feet long x 20 feet wide) when the excavation soil sheared off and hit him from behind at the calf level. The dirt pushed him forward and fractured his right ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Excavation or trenching cave-in
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate