Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201156452 - Employee fractures forearm when shifting rebars stike him

Accident Summary Nr: 201156452 -- Report ID: 0950633 -- Event Date: 10/03/2002
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
300859832	10/04/2002	3312	331111	Tamco Steel, Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 12:45 p.m. on October 3, 2002, employee #1 working for a steel company that turned scrap steel into reinforcing bars (rebars) used in the construction industry was part of a three-person crew assigned to load bundles of 60-foot-long rebars onto a trailer. He was resting his arm on a rebar stack while the operator of a loading boom was lifting the bundle of rebars. As the bundle shifted, rebars came out of the stack, pinning employee #1's right forearm. He was taken to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, California, where he was hospitalized and underwent surgery.

Keywords: LOADING, FRACTURE, REBAR, PINNED, FOREARM, INDUSTRIAL TRUCK, SCRAP METAL, UNSTABLE LOAD

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	300859832			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators

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