Accident Report Detail

Accident: 171058969 - Employee Injured In Fall From Scaffold Onto Rebar

**Accident: 171058969 -- Report ID: 0854910 -- Event Date: 04/03/2000**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
301168977	04/05/2000	1741	Paul A Snyder Masonry Inc

Employee #1 was walking backward when he walked off the end of a scaffold and fell 8 ft, impaling his buttocks on a piece of rebar. He sustained a puncture injury, for which he was hospitalized.

Keywords: guardrail, rebar, impaled, buttocks, work rules, construction, fall, fall protection, walking backward, scaffold

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Other building		New project or new addition		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000	1	45

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	301168977			Hospitalized injury	Puncture	Brickmasons and stonemasons	FallDist: FallHt:8 Cause: Exterior masonry FatCause: Fall from/with scaffold

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