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Accident: 201404969 - Employee Killed In Fall While Setting Steel Bar Joists

**Accident: 201404969 -- Report ID: 0552651 -- Event Date: 04/03/2001**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
127054575	04/03/2001	1791	Whaley Steel Corp

Ironworkers were setting steel bar joists on a masonry wall. Employee #1 climbed down a vertical toothed masonry wall, slipped or lost his grip, and fell to a lower masonry wall 16 feet below. Employee #1 was completely impaled, in a sitting position, on vertically protruding, two foot high #4 rebar. No access ladder was available at the jobsite. Employee #1 suffered a fatal puncture injury.

Keywords: joist, rebar, impaled, steel erection, fall, puncture

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Manufacturing plant		New project or new addition		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000	2		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	127054575			Fatality	Puncture	Construction laborers	FallDist: FallHt:28 Cause: Steel Erection Of Open Web Steel Joists-Moving Poi FatCause: Fall from/with structure (other than roof)

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