Incident date: 2019-04-08
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was in a trench for a sewer line. Part of the trench wall collapsed, knocking the employee to his knees and burying him. He suffered bruises and was hospitalized.

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