Incident date: 2018-12-07
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was working to connect a sewer line (sewer tap) to a residential building. The wall of an 8-ft. ditch collapsed and the employee was pushed back against the other wall causing a fractured rib and fractured vertebrae between the shoulder and neck.

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