Incident date: 2021-08-23
NAICS industry code: 237310

Employees were working in a 5-foot-deep trench. While an employee was repositioning pipes, the gravel layer toward the bottom of the trench gushed out of one of the sidewalls of the trench and engulfed his right foot, trapping him. Simultaneously, the force of the rushing soil pushed his lower right leg sideways. He suffered a broken tibia 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: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate