Incident date: 2015-05-22
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was clearing the bottom of an underpinning excavation when the ceiling collapsed and he became pinned under a large granite rock from the old foundation they were underpinning.  The employee was hospitalized and received surgery to repair broken bones in his back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Excavation or trenching cave-in
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate