Incident date: 2018-07-06
NAICS industry code: 237110

On July 6, 2018, an employee was installing pipe in an excavation four feet deep. The walls collapsed and the employee was struck by falling rock and dirt, suffering a compression of the L2 vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Excavation or trenching cave-in
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries to bones, nerves, spinal cord, unspecified
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate