OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #891788
REBAR,IMPALED,WORK RULES,SLIP,CONSTRUCTION,METAL POLE,FALL,UNGUARDED
Event description
Employee injured when impaled on steel reinforcing rod
Investigation abstract
At about 8:00 a.m. on June 23, 1989, Employee #1, a crane operator for Williams e vertical reinforcing rods. He sustained an approximately 6 in. long puncture w ound into his groin area, for which he was hospitalized. The rods were not guard ed to eliminate the hazard of impalement and safe access was not provided from t he abutment wall to the bridge deck. Construction Co., Inc., was stepping onto a concrete bridge abutment wall from t he end of the bridge deck. There were two rows of steel reinforcing rods install ed in the 50 ft long wall; the rods were evenly spaced, 18 in. apart, across the wall. There was a 6 in. opening between the wall and the end of the deck. The r ow of rods adjacent to the deck protruded 2 ft vertically from the wall and were 20 in. below the deck. The other rods were each 4 ft long and protruded at abou t 45 degrees away from the first row. As Employee #1 lowered his left foot to st ep onto the wall, he slipped into the 6 in. wide opening and fell onto one of th
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 67 M
- Nature of injury
- 18
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 849
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 2
- Task assigned
- 1
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