Incident date: 2016-01-29
NAICS industry code: 221118

An employee went into a 15-feet-deep trench to test if the cables were energized when the trench collapsed. The employee was crushed by the dirt and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Excavation or trenching cave-in
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Whole body
severity: moderate