| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-01 | Rolla | Mo | CABLE ONE INC. | Ankle(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
| An employee was attempting to move a trencher. He stepped onto the trencher and his right foot slipped and fell onto the auger, resulting in a broken right ankle. | |||||
| 2021-10-26 | Gwinner | Nd | Grotberg Electric, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was guiding a boring rod on a vibratory plow trencher to install a conduit when the employee's hooding got caught on the boring rod, resulting in an amputation of the right little finger and potential fractures of the right arm. | |||||
| 2021-05-11 | Stockdale | Tx | Rodney Wiatrek | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
| An employee was on top of a trencher to put a cover on its exhaust manifold when he slipped off the trencher and fell 5.5 feet to the ground, resulting in five broken ribs, a lacerated spleen, and a lacerated liver. It was raining at the time. | |||||
| 2019-07-19 | Columbus | Ohio | Wilsons Enterprises | Thigh(s) | Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. |
| An employee was running a trencher in a yard. The trencher hit a 10-foot rod that had been covered with dirt, and the rod flipped into the employee's back thigh and caused a puncture wound above the knee. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2019-06-21 | Palmyra | Missouri | PORT INDUSTRIES | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Fall through surface or existing opening |
| An employee was checking/inspecting the hose to a trencher that was parked over a pit when he fell into the floor of the pit, suffering broken ribs. | |||||
| 2018-08-24 | Lake Park | Georgia | Corbett Electrical Construction, Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was walking beside a stand-behind trencher as it dug a trench. The cutting chain pulled in one of his shoelaces and severely lacerated his lower left leg. The chain was guarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2017-06-13 | Sherman | Texas | Luke Horn Electric | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
| An employee was operating a trencher near a trench when the ground gave way. The trencher and the employee rolled down into the trench. The employee suffered three broken ribs and a chest laceration. | |||||
| 2017-02-16 | De Leon | Texas | Totelcom Communications, LLC | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Standing, standing up-single episode |
| An employee was putting a boomer on a trencher with a ratchet. When he stood up, his back seized up. He was hospitalized with a bulging disc and pinched nerve in his back. | |||||
| 2016-02-10 | Hudson | Colorado | Benchmark Electrical Systems, Inc. | Hand(s) and finger(s) | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| An employee was acting as a spotter for a trencher who was removing frozen soil to expose an empty conduit near a chain link fence. The stinger hit something hard underground and bounced up in the air, catching the chain link fence. This caused the teeth of the stinger to ride up the chain link fence, catching the employee's hand, which was resting on the fence. He suffered a large laceration to the palm of his right hand below the middle and ring finger, as well as a broken finger. | |||||
| 2015-07-30 | Springfield | Illinois | Noonan True Value | Upper arm(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee had used 2x4 to chock a trencher wheel. While working on the trencher, the wheel slid and caused the trencher to fall on the employee's arm, breaking the right humerus and requiring surgery and overnight hospitalization. | |||||