Incident date: 2016-01-09
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was coring through a sewer while working in a 15-foot deep excavation. The employee's leg got trapped by debris outside of a trench shield, resulting in a lower limb injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Excavation or trenching cave-in
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate