Incident date: 2018-08-31
NAICS industry code: 236115

At 4:00 p.m. on August 31, 2018, an employee was installing water lines in a trench when it collapsed, partially burying the employee. The employee suffered a broken pelvis, broken ribs, head trauma, and broken facial bones. Cave-in protection was not installed in the trench.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Excavation or trenching cave-in
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate