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Case Status: OPEN |
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Inspection Information - Office: Ca San Diego | ||||
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| Nr: 1418460.015 | Report ID: 0950632 | Open Date: 07/25/2019 | ||
| Commercial Metals Company | ||||
| Muir College Lanebuilding 5 San Diego, CA 92161 | Union Status: Union | |||
| SIC: | ||||
| NAICS: 238120/Structural Steel and Precast Concrete Contractors | ||||
| Mailing: 3880 Murphy Canyon Road #100null, San Diego, CA 92123 | ||||
| Inspection Type: | Fat/Cat | |||
| Scope: | Partial | Advanced Notice: | N | |
| Ownership: | Private | |||
| Safety/Health: | Safety | Close Conference: | 01/23/2020 | |
| Close Case: | ||||
| Related Activity: | Type | ID | Safety | Health |
| Accident | 1480447 | |||
| Inspection | 1443662 | Yes | ||
Case Status: OPEN |
Violation Summary | ||||||
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| Serious | Willful | Repeat | Other | Unclass | Total | |
| Initial Violations | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Current Violations | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Initial Penalty | $25,000 | $0 | $0 | $935 | $0 | $25,935 |
| Current Penalty | $25,000 | $0 | $0 | $935 | $0 | $25,935 |
| FTA Amount | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Violation Items | |||||||||||
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| # | ID | Type | Standard | Issuance | Abate | Curr$ | Init$ | Fta$ | Contest | LastEvent | |
| 1. | 01001 | Other | 1509(A) | 01/23/2020 | 03/04/2020 | $935 | $935 | $0 | 01/29/2020 | C - Contested | |
| 2. | 02001 | Serious | 1711(E)(1) | 01/23/2020 | $25,000 | $25,000 | $0 | 01/29/2020 | C - Contested | ||
Accident Investigation Summary | ||||||
| Summary Nr: 118341.015 | Event: 07/25/2019 | One Employee Is Killed, Three Are Injured When Rebar Columns | ||||
| At 8:45 a.m. on July 25, 2019, Employees #1 through #4, employed by a steel fabr ication company, were engaged in steel erection for a new two-story commercial b uilding, a multiemployer construction project. Each employee was positioned on a reinforcing steel (rebar) column, approximately 35 feet high, along the bounda ry shear wall. They were preparing the columns to receive concrete. One column began to fall, and then the other three columns fell, causing all four employee s to fall. Emergency services were called, and the four employees were transpor ted to the hospital. Employee #1, whose skull had fractured when he was crushed between the falling columns, died at the hospital. Employees #2, #3, and #4 we re treated and released. | ||||||
| Keywords: caught between, column, construction, crushed, erection process, falling object, fracture, head, rebar, skull, steel column, steel erection, struck by, structural collapse | ||||||
| Inspection | Degree | Nature | Occupation | |||
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| 1 | 1418460.015 | Fatality | Reinforcing Iron & Rebar Worker | |||