OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221471238

ROLAND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES

BRIGHTON, CO— 2022-06-18T00:00:00

Event: Asphyxiated, Caught In, Collapse, Competent Person, Construction, Crushed, Excavation, Excavator, Lack of Engineering Controls, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Multi-employer Worksite, Multiemployer, Pipe, Plumbing, Residential Construction, Sewer, Struck By, Trapped, Trench, Unstable Position, Unstable Soil, Unstable Surface
NAICS: 238910
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346030372
Employer profile: ROLAND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
Summary number: 221471238
Report ID: 0830500
Project type: C
Construction end-use: A

Event description

Employee is killed after being asphyxiated in excavation

Investigation abstract

At 3:25 p.m. on June 18, 2022, an employee was in an excavation in the process of repairing a 4-inch PVC sewer line. The sewer line was located at a the end of a shared residential driveway. After a coworker started up a mini-excavator, he noticed the interior trench wall of the excavation started sloughing. The employer told the employee to stay in the pothole area of the excavation. As the employee attempted to move in the direction towards the pothole area the wall collapsed. The employee was trapped, crushed and asphyxiated and died.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 33 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
7010

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