Accident Report Detail

Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 132478.015 - Employee Is Killed In Trench Collapse

**Accident: 132478.015 -- Report ID: 0418300 -- Event Date: 01/15/2021**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1510451.015	01/15/2021		Weaver Environmental Services, Inc.

At 1:00 p.m. on January 15, 2021, an employee entered a straight walled, thirty- foot long, five to seven-foot high and four to six-foot wide trench to assist th ree coworkers to install a six-inch PVC sanitary sewer line. Shortly after enter ing the trench, a section of the northwest wall collapsed and buried the employe e. The employee was killed by traumatic asphyxia.

Keywords: asphyxiated, buried, collapse, installing, pipeline, sewer, traumatic, trench

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Multi-family dwelling		New project or new addition			2		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1510451.015	56	M	Fatality		Construction laborers	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Trenching, installing pipe FatCause:

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