Incident date: 2020-06-29
NAICS industry code: 237110

At 1:45 p.m. on June 29, 2020, an employee was installing plumbing at the bottom of an excavation, about 5-7 feet deep, when the side of the excavation collapsed and fell on him. He suffered fractures to the ribs, collarbone, and pelvis and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Excavation or trenching cave-in
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate