Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201145109 - Employees are injured while building bridge formwork

Accident Summary Nr: 201145109 -- Report ID: 0950631 -- Event Date: 01/07/2004
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
125954800	01/07/2004	1622	237310	Regional Steel Corporation

Abstract: On January 7, 2004, Employees #1 through #5 were on a crew building a rebar form to be used in a bridge column. The form was lying on its side, and the employees were tying in a 94-ft-long piece of #18 rebar that was held up by manual winches attached to a 42-ft-long spreader bar on the forks of an Ingersoll-Rand VR1056 industrial truck (Serial Number 562101). When the site general foreman operating the industrial truck lowered the spreader bar to move it, the rebar ties failed. The unsecured spreader bar then fell, striking the five employees, knocking them from the form to the ground. Employee #1 was hospitalized for multiple fractures. The other four employees suffered sprains, contusions, and concussions.

Keywords: BRIDGE COLUMN, FRACTURE, HAND WINCH, IND TRK OPERATOR, REBAR, CONSTRUCTION, INDUSTRIAL TRUCK, STRUCK BY, BRIDGE, CONCUSSION

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Bridge		New project or new addition		$5,000,000 to $20,000,000	1	12

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	125954800	Non Hospitalized injury	Bruise/Contus/Abras	Structural metal workers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite Fatality Cause: Crushed/run-over of non-operator by operating cons
2	125954800	Non Hospitalized injury	Bruise/Contus/Abras	Structural metal workers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite Fatality Cause: Crushed/run-over of non-operator by operating cons
3	125954800	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Structural metal workers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite Fatality Cause: Crushed/run-over of non-operator by operating cons
4	125954800	Non Hospitalized injury	Bruise/Contus/Abras	Structural metal workers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite Fatality Cause: Crushed/run-over of non-operator by operating cons
5	125954800	Non Hospitalized injury	Bruise/Contus/Abras	Structural metal workers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite Fatality Cause: Crushed/run-over of non-operator by operating cons

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