Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at RIVER CITY CONSTRUCTION, L.L.C., Fox Metro Wastewater Treatment Plant, OSWEGO, ILLINOIS 60543
on — Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the thigh(s).
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Final narrative
An employee was working at a height of about 15 feet to remove gang forms and strip out a bulk head with another employee working on the opposite side of him. The employee was wearing a positioning belt and was tied off to an anchor point affixed to a rebar. As he was working, the positioning belt's hook slipped off the tie-off point and he fell, striking a protruding rebar at a lower level and puncturing his right thigh.
HospitalizedThigh(s)Structures and surfaces, unspecified
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