Incident date: 2020-08-05
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was replacing a water line in a 7-foot deep trench. The trench caved-in and the employee was caught in the dislodged soil. The employee sustained bruises.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Excavation or trenching cave-in
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Bruises, contusions
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate