Accident: 170010078 - One Killed, One Injured In Trench Cave-In
At approximately 4:00 p.m. on May 7, 2000, Employees #1 and #2, were working in a 15 ft wide trench. Employee #1 was checking the grade prior to installing a 10 in. diameter drainage pipe. The nearly vertical trench walls were approximately 15 ft tall on the east side and 17 ft tall on the west side, with an additional 8 ft of spoils on the west side. A portion of the east wall collapsed, burying Employee #1 up to his waist and pinning him against the west wall. He was killed. Employee #2 had been operating the backhoe most of the day; he sustained injuries that required hospitalization.
trench, cave-in, collapse, construction, buried, sloping, work rules, installing, unstable surface
Accident: 170075246 - Killed In Excavation Cave-In
On July 1, 1999, Employee #1 was in a 5 ft deep excavation when it caved in. He died of asphyxia.
cave-in, excavation, asphyxiated, construction, work rules
Accident: 170074306 - Killed In Excavation Cave-In
At approximately 7:30 a.m. on June 2, 1999, Employee #1 was in a 12 ft deep excavation preparing form work for catch basin #26 when the west side of the excavation collapsed. He was killed.
cave-in, excavation, construction, work rules, collapse, concrete form work
Accident: 656058 - Two Injured When Trench Caves In
Employees #1 and #2 were standing at the edge of an excavation when the road edge collapsed. Both men were partially buried.
collapse, trench, excavation, buried, cave-in, unstable soil, work rules
Accident: 656025 - Two Injured When Trench Wall Collapses
Employees #1 and #2 were working in a 6 ft 6 in. deep trench when a side wall collapsed, partially burying them. Both workers sustained injuries that required hospitalization. The trench not shored.
trench, cave-in, shoring, collapse, buried, construction, work rules, wall
Accident: 170074314 - Killed In Excavation Cave-In
Employee #1 was in a 5 ft wide by 9 to 10 ft long by 7 to 8 ft deep excavation cleaning a pipe to be connected to a manhole when the excavation caved in and he was completely buried. Employee #1 was killed.
cave-in, collapse, excavation, buried, construction
Accident: 14242358 - Killed In Trench Cave-In
Employee #1 was laying 8 ft PVC-R35 pipe in a 6 ft deep trench when the walls caved in. He was struck by the side wall, by a piece of asphalt, and by approximately 4 ft by 2 ft of compacted gravel. Employee #1 was killed. The side walls of the trench were vertical, and no shoring or sloping had been used. In addition, no soil tests had been conducted at the site.
construction, trench, cave-in, struck by, falling object, shoring, sloping, installing, work rules, collapse
Accident: 658351 - Three Injured When Trench Wall Caves In
Employee #1 was connecting water main sections in a 7 ft deep trench when the trench wall collapsed and buried him to his waist. Employees #2 and #3 had begun to dig him out when another section of the wall collapsed on top of them. All three employees sustained injuries that required hospitalization. The trench was neither guarded and nor shored.
buried, trench, collapse, shoring, work rules, construction, cave-in, trench box
Accident: 170046833 - Killed In Trench Cave-In
At 2:15 p.m. on August 4, 1998, Employee #1 was spreading crushed rock in a 7 ft deep by 53 in. wide trench. The nearly vertical east wall caved in, burying Employee #1. He died of blunt force injuries to his head and chest. Employee #1 had been working 20 ft south of the trench box.
trench, cave-in, sloping, collapse, buried, construction, work rules
