Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202469276 - Employee Suffers Multiple Injuries When Rebar Falls

Accident Summary Nr: 202469276 -- Report ID: 0950643 -- Event Date: 03/09/2010
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
312435894	03/10/2010	1541	236220	Oberg Contracting Corp.

Abstract: Employee #1 was a foreman working on a public road project and was the only employee working on that particular day of the accident. Employee #1 needed to move a bundle of rebar. He made the decision to ask another contractor working across the street if he could help him move the rebar. The person he asked was the backhoe operator. Employee #1 used a chain that supposedly was made of aircraft quality and wrapped the chain around the rebar twice and then hooked the chain onto itself. The bundle of rebar needed to be moved about 75 to 100 feet away. As the backhoe was nearing its destination, Employee #1 notice that one of the rebar slipped and one end was on the ground. The backhoe was moving in a direction that caused the rebar touching the ground to start digging into the ground. Employee #1 was standing to the side and when he saw the rebar digging into the ground, he went to try to free the rebar end. When he tried to do this, the load of rebar fell on his back. Employee #1 suffered back injury and multiple fractures to hip and pelvis.

Keywords: CHAIN, FRACTURE, REBAR, SLIP, BACK, PELVIS, FALL, BACKHOE, HIP

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

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	312435894			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Emplacing reinforcing steel Fatality Cause: Lifting operations

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