Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 123728.015 - Employee suffers leg contusion when stuck by guardrail

Accident Summary Nr: 123728.015 -- Report ID: 1054115 -- Event Date: 01/14/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1460859.015	02/03/2020	1611	237310	317726897 - Grant County

Abstract: At 8:00 a.m. on January 14, 2020, an employee was using cutting torch to cut a guardrail which a school bus had gotten stuck on. When the guardrail was cut, it sprang out and struck the employee on his right lower leg. The employee stayed on scene and finished freeing the school bus, then drove himself to the hospital due to the pain in his leg. The employee suffered a contusion of his lower right leg. The employee was treated without hospitalization.

Keywords: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Bus, Contusion, Cutting, Guardrail, Leg, Projectile, Struck Against, Struck By, Stuck, Torch cutting

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1460859.015	62	M	Non Hospitalized injury		Welders and cutters	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Emplacing reinforcing steel Fatality Cause:

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