OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14567077
S & P GRADING INC.
AIKEN, SC—
Event description
Employee killed in trench cave-in
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and two coworkers were installing a sewer line in a trench that rang ed from 10 to 12 ft deep, depending on the slope of the land. The trench caved i n and Employee #1 suffered crushing chest injuries. He died of asphyxia. The tre nch was neither sloped nor shored, there was no trench box, and an approximately 6 ft high spoil pile was located on the edge of the trench. A tractor-backhoe w as used to dig the trench, but was not directly involved in the accident.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 41 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.