Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202474714 - Employee Loses Eye When Struck By Or Impaled On Rebar

Accident Summary Nr: 202474714 -- Report ID: 0950636 -- Event Date: 12/14/2007
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
307187013	01/08/2008	1541	236210	H & H Construction Services Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 3:30 p.m. on December 14, 2007, Employee #1, a laborer with H & H Construction Services, Inc., was at a single-family residential construction site in West Covina, CA, cutting some horizontal rebars at grade level. He was using hand pliers when an approximately 8 ft long by 3/4 in. in diameter rebar struck him in the right eye or his eye otherwise became impaled on it. Employee #1 was transported by paramedics to County USC Medical Center for treatment. He was hospitalized for four days, but they were unable to save his eye. The 14 in. long hand plier, model 350, that Employee #1 was using was inspected at the site and found to be working properly.

Keywords: eye, rebar, impaled, work rules, struck against, construction, struck by, hand tool

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition		$500,000 to $1,000,000	2	24

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	307187013			Hospitalized injury	Foreign Body Ineye	Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Interior masonry Fatality Cause: Other

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