Incident date: 2015-04-30
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was hospitalized after being struck by soil/dirt while working within a sloped trench that was approximately 9-feet deep. The employee injured the right leg.

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