Incident date: 2023-10-23
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was walking along a trench inspecting the trench box in the excavation when he tripped and fell toward the trench. As the employee was falling head-first into the trench, he attempted to get a hold of the fall protection cable. The cable then looped around his left hand and the employee fell approximately 8 feet into the trench before the fall protection engaged. The employee suffered amputations of his left index, middle, ring, and little fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high