OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221476955

65121 - EARTH WORKS LLC

VALLEY STATION, KY— 2022-07-06T00:00:00

Event: Asphyxiated, Collapse, Crushed, Trapped, Trench, Trench Box, Unstable Soil
NAICS: 238910
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346064363
Employer profile: 65121 - EARTH WORKS LLC
Summary number: 221476955
Report ID: 0452110

Event description

Employee is killed when trench wall collapses

Investigation abstract

At 12:00 a.m. on July 6, 2022, an employee of Earth Works LLC was working in an approximately 10 foot trench, when the trench wall collapsed. The employee died while trapped in the trench.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 45 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
999

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.