Incident date: 2022-07-13
NAICS industry code: 237110

Employees were installing an underground drainage line. The 6-foot ditch they were working in partially collapsed, and one employee was buried up to their upper thighs. The employee was bruised by the shoring equipment.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Excavation or trenching cave-in
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Bruises, contusions
code_body: title: Lower extremities, unspecified
severity: moderate