Accident Report Detail

Accident: 765784 - Employee Injured In Fall Onto Unprotected Rebar

**Accident: 765784 -- Report ID: 0931400 -- Event Date: 09/28/1987**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
101242055	09/28/1987	1771	Ecker Brothers, Inc.
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
101242048	09/28/1987	1542	Macco Constructors, Inc.

Employee #1 was marking out locations on a concrete form work wall. He was working above a floor that had unprotected reinforcing steel rods, and fell onto one of the reinforcing rods, impaling himself through the rectum area and into the lung cavity. He was hospitalized.

Keywords: concrete form work, lung, rebar, impaled, work rules, construction, fall, fall protection, unguarded

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	101242055			Hospitalized injury	Puncture	Occupation not reported
2	101242048					Occupation Not Listed

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