OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #733006
PEELES ELECTRIC CO INC
ELLOREE, SC—
Event description
Employee killed in excavation cave-in
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and coworkers were shoveling and leveling gravel in the bottom of a 16 ft deep excavation when it caved in. Employee #1 was killed when he was struc k by falling sand and clay.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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