OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #884486
PERINI BUILDING COMPANY
LAUGHLIN, NV·
Event description
Employee's abdomen punctured in fall onto rebar
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was pinning two forms together on top of a concrete gang form on the first floor of a building. Employee #1 hooked his safety belt lanyard to the an gle iron that bordered the form. At some point he allowed slack in the lanyard, which caused the hook to release. Employee #1 fell 15 ft onto an unprotected pro truding 1 5/8 in. rebar. He sustained a puncture wound to the lower right abdomi nal region.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 54 Male
- Nature of injury
- Puncture (18)
- Part of body
- ABDOMEN (1)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Carpenters (567)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.