Incident date: 2021-07-17
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was working in a trench excavation. A section of the excavation began to collapse, and the employee's leg was struck and broken by the falling soil as he tried to get out. He was hospitalized.

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