Incident date: 2018-10-09
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was connecting a pipe to a new manhole inside an excavation when the soil caved in and pinned the employee against the manhole. The employee suffered fractured ribs and shoulder and wrist injuries.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Excavation or trenching cave-in
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate