Accident Report Detail

Accident: 81640.015 - Employee Is Killed When Struck In Head By Rebar

**Accident: 81640.015 -- Report ID: 0111500 -- Event Date: 12/08/2015**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1112039.015	12/09/2015		Seven A Company Inc.

At 2:40 p.m. on December 8, 2015, an employee was moving two bundles of rebar of number 7, weighing approximately 4,700 lbs into place with an excavator prepari ng to install footings. The rebar bundles were not properly secured. When the em ployee jumped up to hold the end of the bundle as it was being lowered, the bund le struck the employee in the head. The employee was killed.

Keywords: excavator, head, material handling, struck by, suspended load, unsecured, unstable load

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition		$500,000 to $1,000,000	3		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1112039.015	48	M	Fatality		Laborers, except construction	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Forming FatCause:

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