Incident date: 2021-04-16
NAICS industry code: 423810

An employee from Tractor and Equipment Company was standing on the side of a sewer pipe trench at a customer worksite. The ground caved in. The employee fell head-first into the trench and was buried up to his feet. The employee was suffocated by the soil and lost consciousness. The employee was hospitalized for a concussion and fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Engulfment in other collapsing material
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate