Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201114725 - Employee Is Injured in Excavation Cave-in

Accident Summary Nr: 201114725 -- Report ID: 0950643 -- Event Date: 08/02/2002
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
120313739	08/06/2002	1794	238910	Sam Hill & Sons Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 10:06 a.m. on August 2, 2002, Employee #1, a foreman, was working by himself digging an excavation with a backhoe at a new housing development. The excavation was a layered soil trench with a 4-foot vertical cut at the bottom in Type "A" soil with the top 2 feet sloped 2 to 1 in the Type "C" soil. The employee was trying to locate a sewer connection stub while inside the excavation using a "T" bar when the excavation collapsed on him. He suffered a broken pelvis and was hospitalized. The excavation was close to another excavation for an electrical line that was refilled. The employee believed that this former excavation caused his excavation to collapse.

Keywords: SEWER, EXCAVATION, FRACTURE, INSTALLING, EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, CONSTRUCTION, CAUGHT BETWEEN, PELVIS, CAVE-IN, BACKHOE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition		$5,000,000 to $20,000,000	2

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	120313739			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Construction trades, n.e.c.	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Trenching, installing pipe Fatality Cause: Trench collapse

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