Accident Report Detail

Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 118276.015 - Employee Falls Into Trench And Sustains Multiple Fractures

**Accident: 118276.015 -- Report ID: 0522300 -- Event Date: 06/11/2019**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1409463.015	06/20/2019		Ward & Burke Tunneling Inc.

At 7:00 a.m. on June 11, 2019, Employee #1, employed by a construction company, was above a trench and inspecting it for water. He walked onto a 4-foot by 4-fo ot piece of unsecured concrete balanced on the edge of the trench and fell into the trench. The employee was pinned against a trench box and injured. He was t ransported to the hospital and admitted for treatment of fractures to the collar bone and thigh bone.

Keywords: caught between, collarbone, concrete, construction, fall, fall protection, fracture, inspecting, lost balance, manhole, pinned, thigh, trench, trench box, unsecured, walking surface, work surface

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
		New project or new addition

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1409463.015	43	M	Hospitalized injury		Construction laborers	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Trenching, installing pipe FatCause:

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