Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202443263 - Employee Is Killed in Trench Cave In

Accident Summary Nr: 202443263 -- Report ID: 0950633 -- Event Date: 02/25/2006
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
125942037	02/25/2006	1623	237110	Atkinson Construction Lp

Abstract: At approximately 7:00 a.m. on February 25, 2006, Employee #1, a pipe layer, entered an unprotected 33 ft deep trench to unhook the rigging cable from a choker harness from a trench shield, 16 ft long by 15 ft wide by 10 ft high. The trench had approximately 23 ft high walls of granular sand, Type-C soil, on both sides over the wall tops of the trench shield along with the open side at the west end. The wall of the trench caved in, and Employee #1 was buried under dirt and died of asphyxiation.

Keywords: ASPHYXIATED, COLLAPSE, UNSECURED, PINNED, TRENCH, STRUCK BY, CAVE-IN

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Pipeline		New project or new addition		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	125942037			Fatality	Asphyxia	Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Excavation Fatality Cause: Asphyxiation/inhalation of toxic vapor

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