Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 903955 - Employee dislocates shoulder in trench cave-in

Accident Summary Nr: 903955 -- Report ID: 0551800 -- Event Date: 08/07/1990
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
108583519	08/09/1990	1623	0	Liberty Construction Inc

Abstract: At approximately 3:00 p.m. on August 7, 1990, Employee #1 was in an excavation that measured 7 1/2 ft. deep by 8 ft wide at the top and 3 ft wide at the bottom, installing a gasket into an elbow on a 12 in. ductile iron water line. He was sitting on the water line when a fellow employee called out that the bank was beginning to collapse. Employee #1 started to stand but the soil pinned his leg against the pipe; the bank then collapsed onto him and pushed him against the opposite bank. He dislocated his left shoulder.

Keywords: INSTALLING, SHOULDER, PINNED, CONSTRUCTION, TRENCH, DISLOCATED, SHORING, CAVE-IN, LEG

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	108583519			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Occupation not reported

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