Incident date: 2016-10-28
NAICS industry code: 237110

While assisting with the sewer line inside the trench box, a section of trench wall fell into the box and pinned the employee against the box wall. The employee was hospitalized with a spinal injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Excavation or trenching cave-in
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries to spinal cord, unspecified
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate