OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14455703
HARPER EXCAVATION
SLC, UT—
Event description
Employee injured in trench cave-in
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was laying a 12 in. sewer pipe in an approximately 11 ft deep by 25 ft long by 8 ft wide trench through unstable clay soil. When he stepped out of t he 10 ft deep by 20 ft long by 7 1/2 ft wide trench box, he was struck by extrem ely hard, wet, clay. He fractured both his pelvis and his back in three places.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 585
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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