Accident Report Detail
Accident: 200372712 - Employee Killed In Trench Cave-In
Accident: 200372712 -- Report ID: 0454510 -- Event Date: 01/28/2003 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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306076563 | 01/28/2003 | 1731 | Burriss Electrical | ||||
On January 28, 2003, Employee #1 and Employee #2 were working for an electrical contractor installing electrical conduit in a trench. The trench was approximately 8-ft-deep in sandy soil at a high school construction site. No protective system was provided for the trench. Three employees (including Employee #1 and Employee #2) were inside a section of the trench (approximately 27 ft from the backhoe) located at the end of the trench when a wall of the trench collapsed onto Employee #1 and Employee #2 resulting in their deaths. | |||||||
Keywords:
installing, wall, electrical, collapse, conduit, trench, crushed, pipe, cave-in, backhoe
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Commercial building | New project or new addition | $50,000 to $250,000 | 1 | X | |||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 306076563 | Fatality | Fracture | Construction laborers | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Trenching, installing pipe FatCause: Trench collapse |
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2 | 306076563 | Fatality | Fracture | Construction laborers | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Trenching, installing pipe FatCause: Trench collapse |