OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14565527
BILL SISSON PLUMBING
TUCSON, AZ—
Event description
Employee injured in trench cave-in
Investigation abstract
At approximately 12:30 p.m. on April 30, 1989, Employee #1 was working in a 10 t o 11 ft deep by 3 ft wide trench that was well protected and shored. For some re ason, and it appears by accident, he stepped out of the shored section of the tr ench just as it caved in. Employee #1 was buried up to his neck. The accident wa s investigated after a story about it appeared in the Tucson Daily Citizen on Ma y 1, 1989
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 9
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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