Inspection Detail

Inspection: 311635395 - Century Steel, Inc.

Inspection Information - Office: Nv-E-Las Vegas 0953220

Investigation Summary

At approximately 9:15 a.m. on November 26, 2007, Employee #1, an ironworker, was at floor T8, section D of the Fontainebleau Las Vegas structure, which was under construction. He was preparing a vertical rebar column to set a trim beam in place; he was using his positioning hook, which was connected to a #8 rebar/dowel approximately 5 in. from the top. Employee #1's feet were approximately 50 in. up the column above the working surface of floor T8. He he was cutting a #4 rebar band that had been holding a hair pin when his positioning hook displaced. Employee #1 fell backward approximately 4 ft, landing on a steel picking eye on the trim beam that was protruding up from the surface of the floor below. He sustained a fracture of his L1 vertebra. Employee #1 was transported by Emergency Services to UMC Hospital, where he was treated and released that same day.

Keywords: ATTACHMENT HOOK, FRACTURE, REBAR, UNSECURED, IRON WORKER, WORK RULES, STRUCK AGAINST, CONSTRUCTION, FALL, VERTEBRA