Incident date: 2020-08-18
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was working on a sewer line in a trench, replacing water line saddles when soil materials broke loose from the trench wall and fell on the employee's leg, fracturing it.

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