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Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 131915.015 - Employee Repairing Sewer Line Is Killed When Trench Collapse

**Accident: 131915.015 -- Report ID: 0830400 -- Event Date: 12/21/2020**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1507732.015	12/22/2020		Nelsen Construction

At 4:00 p.m. on December 21, 2020, Employee #1 and coworkers, employed by a wate r and sewer line construction company, were attempting to repair a residential s ewer line that was back flowing. While they were in the trench they had dug, a trench wall collapsed. Employee #1 was caught in the collapsing material and fa tally crushed.

Keywords: asphyxiated, blunt force trauma, buried, caught in, crushed, excavation, pipeline, repair, residential construction, sewer, structural collapse, trench, unguarded, unprotected, wall

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition			1		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1507732.015	45	M	Fatality		Excavating and loading machine operators	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Excavation FatCause:

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