Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 132478.015 - Employee is killed in trench collapse

Accident Summary Nr: 132478.015 -- Report ID: 0418300 -- Event Date: 01/15/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1510451.015	01/15/2021		237110	Weaver Environmental Services, Inc.

Abstract: 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 three coworkers to install a six-inch PVC sanitary sewer line. Shortly after entering the trench, a section of the northwest wall collapsed and buried the employee. The employee was killed by traumatic asphyxia.

Keywords: Asphyxiated, Buried, Collapse, Installing, Pipeline, Sewer, Traumatic, Trench

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Multi-family dwelling		New project or new addition			2		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1510451.015	56	M	Fatality		Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Trenching, installing pipe Fatality Cause:

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