Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Date
03 Jun 1993, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the failure mechanism and how workers died due to trench failures with close examination of the situations surrounding these accidents. We carried out a statistical analysis of various factors obtained from fatal accident data which were reported by the Labour Standard Office to the Ministry of Labour. This examination revealed some important characteristics of fatal accidents due to trench failures.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
3rd Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1993 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Toyosawa, Yasuo; Horii, Noriyuki; and Tamate, Satoshi, "Analysis of Fatal Accidents Caused by Trench Failure" (1993). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 2.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/3icchge/3icchge-session05/2
Analysis of Fatal Accidents Caused by Trench Failure
St. Louis, Missouri
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the failure mechanism and how workers died due to trench failures with close examination of the situations surrounding these accidents. We carried out a statistical analysis of various factors obtained from fatal accident data which were reported by the Labour Standard Office to the Ministry of Labour. This examination revealed some important characteristics of fatal accidents due to trench failures.
