Incident date: 2016-06-22
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee entered a 5-foot trench to fix a broken water line when the trench wall caved in and trapped the employee from the thigh down.

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: Lower extremities, unspecified
severity: moderate