Accident Report Detail
Accident: 201043478 - Employee Fractures Vertebra In Fall Onto Steel Protrusion
Accident: 201043478 -- Report ID: 0953220 -- Event Date: 11/26/2007 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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311635395 | 11/26/2007 | 1791 | Century Steel, Inc. | ||||
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
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Commercial building | New project or new addition | $20,000,000 and over | 70 | 730 | |||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 311635395 | Non Hospitalized injury | Fracture | Construction trades, n.e.c. | FallDist: FallHt:4 Cause: Emplacing reinforcing steel FatCause: Fall from/with structure (other than roof) |