Incident date: 2021-01-28
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was standing at the end of the trench box laying waterline when dirt engulfed the employee up to his hip. The employee was hospitalized with stomach pain.

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: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate