Incident date: 2023-04-10
NAICS industry code: 236220

On April 10, 2023, at 12:00 PM, an employee was using a broom to clear rock from a building's foundation in preparation for a spray-on vapor barrier. There was a 4-foot deep trench next to the building where the employee was working and the soil at the trench's edge fell away. The employee fell into the trench and was hospitalized for a left pelvis and/or femur fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate