Cave-in Kills Field Service Owner in Wyoming

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• Corporate Authors:
  Wyoming Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology Project (Wyoming FACE) ; Wyoming Occupational Fatality Analysis Program
• Description:
  A 30 year old male died from injuries suffered when the sides of a trench fell in on him while he was repairing a broken water main under a city street. The victim and a co-worker had brought a back-hoe to the address of a relative of the victim to dig a 10' deep trench at a buried water line. By mid-afternoon, they reached the water line and determined to weld the line break. The victim then rented a truck-mounted arc welder and began the operation. Due to the approaching darkness, the co-worker returned to the back-hoe to close the windows. When he returned, he saw that the trench had caved in. The co-worker called for help and jumped into the trench to attempt to uncover the victim. Rescuers arrived on the scene and extricated the victim from 1½ to 2' of wet dirt over a period of 25 to 35 minutes. The victim was transported by ambulance to a local clinic where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Employers may be able to minimize the potential for occurrence of this type of incident through the following precautions: 1. Trenching operations should provide cave-in protection, such as sloping, benching, or trench. 2. Regularly scheduled safety meetings should be provided to all employees of trenching operations. 3. Particularly when working in wet soil, a person inside a trench should be in the constant vision of a co-worker. 4. Safety precautions required for contracts with oil fields should also be used during less formal arrangements with individuals, governments, or small businesses.
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date provided by FACE program
  
  not printed on the report.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction-industry Construction-workers Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 8 Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Confined Space ; Construction
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE94WY004
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Wyoming ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  3 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028799
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2014-105076
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 94WY004, 1994 Mar ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Performing Organization:
  Wyoming Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  22 - Utilities - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  1996/09/29
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5742aa30ccf598c49b993f259ad4f788eb9373ac2ba1c911097d3b70342a8b703db630effbb57c40b07ba56c8cec058ea9e06be5d6b7743eaa26b4782a477c41
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166394/cdc_166394_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 60.55 KB ]