Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201043478 - Employee fractures vertebra in fall onto steel protrusion

Accident Summary Nr: 201043478 -- Report ID: 0953220 -- Event Date: 11/26/2007
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
311635395	11/26/2007	1791	238120	Century Steel, Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 9:15 a.m. on November 26, 2007, Employee #1, an ironworker, was at floor T8, section D of the Fontainebleau Las Vegas structure, which was under construction. He was preparing a vertical rebar column to set a trim beam in place; he was using his positioning hook, which was connected to a #8 rebar/dowel approximately 5 in. from the top. Employee #1's feet were approximately 50 in. up the column above the working surface of floor T8. He he was cutting a #4 rebar band that had been holding a hair pin when his positioning hook displaced. Employee #1 fell backward approximately 4 ft, landing on a steel picking eye on the trim beam that was protruding up from the surface of the floor below. He sustained a fracture of his L1 vertebra. Employee #1 was transported by Emergency Services to UMC Hospital, where he was treated and released that same day.

Keywords: ATTACHMENT HOOK, FRACTURE, REBAR, UNSECURED, IRON WORKER, WORK RULES, STRUCK AGAINST, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, VERTEBRA

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$20,000,000 and over	70	730

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	311635395			Non Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Construction trades, n.e.c.	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 4 feet Cause: Emplacing reinforcing steel Fatality Cause: Fall from/with structure (other than roof)

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