Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 112016.015 - Employee receives rib and vertebrae fractures in trench coll

Accident Summary Nr: 112016.015 -- Report ID: 0418400 -- Event Date: 12/07/2018
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1367711.015	12/17/2018		238220	Glenn Burgess Plumbing, Inc.

Abstract: At 10:00 a.m. on December 7, 2018, an employee and two coworkers were working to install a new six-inch sewer connection line to a ten-inch sewer main. Coworker #1 used a backhoe to open a ten foot long by ten foot wide and five and a half foot tall excavation. The employee and coworker #2 worked in the trench to locate the sewer main. At some point, the west wall of the excavation began to collapse. Coworker #2 was able to exit the excavation safely, but the falling dirt engulfed the employee. The employee was hospitalized for fractures to a rib and vertebrae.

Keywords: Backhoe, Collapse, Engulfed, Excavation, Fracture, Installing, Pipe, Rib, Sewer, Trench, Vertebra

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition			1

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Construction
1	1367711.015	40	M	Hospitalized injury		Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Excavation Fatality Cause:

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