Incident date: 2022-07-18
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was helping explore for a utility line that ran through a trench. As she was digging with a shovel, she fell back into the trench, landing on her back and flipping over. She suffered a broken collarbone and vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate