Incident date: 2015-03-23
NAICS industry code: 237110

Employee broke leg while installing a cap on an irrigation line in a 4-foot trench. The sides of the trench caved in on the employee, fracturing his right leg between the knee and ankle.

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