Incident date: 2020-06-19
NAICS industry code: 238190

An employee exited his truck to assess the job site and work to be done. When he reached the edge of the area excavated for the work, the ground gave way causing him to fall into the excavation. The employee was impaled by a piece of rebar. It entered his left armpit and went through his chest muscles and up to his collar bone area.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
severity: moderate