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Accident: 133597.015 - Employee Is Killed In Trench Wall Collapse While Leveling Gr

**Accident: 133597.015 -- Report ID: 0214700 -- Event Date: 02/25/2021**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1516586.015	02/25/2021		Cemetery Gardens, Inc.

At 8:30 a.m. on February 25, 2021, an employee was using hand tools to level the bottom of a seven foot deep double grave. The west wall of the grave collapsed crushing and killing the employee.

Keywords: access/egress, asphyxiated, buried, caught between, cave-in, collapse, crushed, excavation, excavator, fall, hand tool, hard hat, ladder, ppe, sand, struck by, trench, unprotected, unstable soil

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Excavation, landfill		Other					X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1516586.015	42	M	Fatality		Laborers, except construction	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Excavation FatCause:

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