Incident date: 2021-06-12
NAICS industry code: 237990

An employee was seated on a rebar mat that was at the bottom of an approximately 8 foot deep excavation. The employee was removing dirt by hand, next to the west wall of the excavation. A portion of the soil wall collapsed onto the employee. The employee was hospitalized with displaced vertebrae.

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