Incident date: 2020-06-26
NAICS industry code: 237130

As an employee was working in a shallow trench, the ground beneath an excavator collapsed, causing the excavator to fall into the trench and strike the employee. The employee was temporarily pinned between the excavator and a communication box installed in the trench, suffering broken ribs and back vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Excavation or trenching cave-in
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate