Accident Report Detail

Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 134927.015 - Employee Is Killed In Trench Collapse

**Accident: 134927.015 -- Report ID: 0830500 -- Event Date: 04/16/2021**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1525674.015	04/16/2021		Dunaway Excavating, Inc.

At 3:45 p.m. on April 16, 2021, an employee and coworker worked in a sixteen-foo t deep by eleven-foot wide at the bottom opening up to nineteen feet at the top trench and used a shovel to manually dig and locate a sewer tie-in. While the em ployee dug into the trench, the sidewall of the trench collapsed and engulfed th e employee in soil and water. The employee was killed by asphyxiation.

Keywords: asphyxiated, collapse, engulfed, sewer, shovel, trench, unstable soil, water

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition			0		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1525674.015	50	M	Fatality		Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Excavation FatCause:

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