Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202341798 - Employee Killed When Trench Caves In

Accident Summary Nr: 202341798 -- Report ID: 0215000 -- Event Date: 05/04/2007
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
310943238	05/04/2007	1741	238140	Star Pak Contracting Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 2:40 p.m. on May 4, 2007, Employee #1 was digging a trench with two other workers to uncover a wall that was leaking from the rain. He was going to waterproof the wall to stop the leak. The trench was approximately 10 feet deep by 11 feet long by 4 feet wide. It had no shoring and the walls were vertical. The trench wall collapsed, burying and asphyxiating Employee #1. It took approximately two hours for rescue workers to dig him out and the medical examiner pronounced him dead on the scene.

Keywords: ASPHYXIATED, INSTALLING, CONSTRUCTION, TRENCH, SHORING, UNSTABLE SOIL, SLOPING, CAVE-IN

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Other building		Alteration or rehabilitation		Under $50,000	2		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	310943238			Fatality	Asphyxia	Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Waterproofing Fatality Cause: Trench collapse

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