The event-triggered fault accommodation problem for a class of nonlinear uncertain systems is considered in this paper. The control signal transmission from the controller to the system is determined by an event-triggering scheme with relative and constant triggering thresholds. Considering the event-induced control input error and system fault threat, a novel event-triggered active fault accommodation scheme is designed, which consists of an event-triggered nominal controller for the time period before detecting the occurrence of faults and an adaptive approximation based event-triggered fault accommodation scheme for handling the unknown faults after detecting the occurrence of faults. The closed-loop stability and inter-event time of the proposed fault accommodation scheme are rigorously analyzed. Special cases for the fault accommodation design under constant triggering threshold are also derived. An example is employed to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed fault accommodation scheme.