Incident date: 2022-01-10
NAICS industry code: 237990

Employees were installing concrete blocks for a retaining wall and were working in an 8-foot-deep, 30-foot-long trench. The trench collapsed and the employees were struck by soil and concrete block. One employee was hospitalized for multiple broken bones.

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