Toolbox Talk Guide: Trench Collapse Kills Construction Worker

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• Corporate Authors:
  Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)
• Description:
  Our safety talk today is about a 47-year-old construction worker who was killed when a trench collapsed. The worker entered an unshored trench nearly 9 feet deep and 9 feet wide to retrieve an asphalt chunk that had fallen inside. He did not tell anyone his intention before making his way from the beginning of the trench through a 5-foot high culvert section already laid in the trench. As he stepped out of the culvert to retrieve the asphalt chunk, the dirt walls above him collapsed. Coworkers called for emergency help and dug out the victim, who died en route to the hospital. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident Prevention Construction Workers Trenches Trenching
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  Toolbox Talk
• Publisher:
  Oregon Health & Science University
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067423
• Citation:
  Portland, OR: Oregon Health & Science University, 2016 Aug; :1-2
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  Public Health Services, Portland, Oregon
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Toolbox talk guide: trench collapse kills construction worker
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f27c16335c534a5df620ce437aa2406128caaf5314b15e67cee6e78e75bf8baa7b7f85589d9ba2108e785a25af232a2f09e8197927836435f212330ab1e6e9de
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/229171/cdc_229171_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 456.39 KB ]