Incident date: 2022-02-28
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee had been leveling dirt to make pipe grade and was moving toward the other end of a trench box to exit the trench using a ladder. The soil above the trench box caved in, and the employee sustained a lumbar spine compression fracture.

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