Incident date: 2025-08-26
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was helping to install a storm drain. The process included digging a trench, laying the storm drain pipe, and burying the pipe. The employee climbed down inside the unguarded trench to get measurements and do leveling for the stabilizing sand. The employee started to prepare the sand so they could lay the pipe. An excavator put some sand into the trench. Dirt then fell on him resulting in fractures to an arm and a leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object  unspecified
code_source: title: Earth and stone materials  raw, semi-finished  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper and lower extremities  n.e.c.
severity: moderate