Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 129209.015 - Employee breaks several bones when caught in trench collapse

Accident Summary Nr: 129209.015 -- Report ID: 0728900 -- Event Date: 09/02/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1491304.015	09/03/2020		236220	Eriksen Construction Co., Inc.

Abstract: At 8:30 a.m. on September 2, 2020, an employee working for a building contractor had entered an unprotected trench to clear a clogged drainpipe. One wall of the trench collapsed onto the employee. The employee was hospitalized to treat multiple broken bones, contusions, sprains and dislocations including his face, back, arms, wrists, jaw and ribs.

Keywords: Back, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Broken Bone, Chest, Clearing, Clogged, Collapse, Commercial Building, Construction, Contusion, Dislocated, Face, Falling Object, Fracture, Jaw, Lack of Engineering Controls, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Rib, Safety Device, Sprain, Struck By, Trench, Unstable Soil, Wrist, Wrong Equipment

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		Maintenance or repair			1

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Construction
1	1491304.015	41	M	Hospitalized injury		Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Excavation Fatality Cause:

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