Incident date: 2022-06-23
NAICS industry code: 238910

A crew was installing a water line in a trench that was 5' 3" deep when a trench wall caved in and pinned an employee, burying him in approximately one cubic yard of dirt. He was hospitalized for broken ribs. Cave-in protection was not used at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Excavation or trenching cave-in
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate